Install Python 3.8 on Amaxon Linux 2

 

Install Python 3.8 on Amazon Linux 2

This thread  focuses on installation Python 3.8 on Amazon Linux 2.

Install from amazon-linux-extras repository

• To install 3.8 on Amazon Linux 2, you need to have amazon-linux-extras repository installed. 

• sudo yum install -y amazon-linux-extras 

• Confirm that Python 3.8 packages available on the repository.  

• amazon-linux-extras | grep -i python

   

You should see the following:

44  python3.8                available    [ =stable ]

•  Enable the repository before using it.
• sudo amazon-linux-extras enable python3.8 

• Install Python 

• sudo yum install python3.8