How to install python3 from source

## Assumption: That you have access to the rhel-6-server-rpms repository either via RH subscription or via Red Hat satellite or via DVD yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools" yum install -y zlib-devel ## download the source wget --no-check-certificate https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.8/Python-3.6.8.tar.xz ## extract the source and change to the directory tar xvf Python-3.6.8.tar.xz cd Python-3.6.8 ## assuming we want to install into /opt/local ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-ensurepip-install ## install files are in /opt/local/bin [root@rhel6 ~]# ls -lah /opt/local/bin/ total 20M drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Oct 26 11:52 . drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4.0K Oct 26 11:52 .. -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 101 Oct 26 11:52 2to3-3.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 242 Oct 26 11:52 easy_install-3.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 99 Oct 26 11:52 idle3.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 224 Oct 26 11:52 pip3.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 84 Oct 26 11:52 pydoc3.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 9.6M Oct 26 11:51 python3.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 9.6M Oct 26 11:51 python3.6m -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3.1K Oct 26 11:52 python3.6m-config -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 441 Oct 26 11:52 pyvenv-3.6 ## if necessary create softlink to /usr/bin ln -s /opt/local/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3 ln -s /opt/local/bin/pip3.6 /usr/bin/pip3 ## Verify [root@rhel6 ~]# which python3 /usr/bin/python3 [root@rhel6 ~]# which pip3 /usr/bin/pip3 [root@rhel6 ~]# python3 -V Python 3.6.8 [root@rhel6 ~]# pip3 -V pip 18.1 from /opt/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)