How would I build python myself from source code on Ubuntu?

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  1. At a shell prompt (in a terminal), run 

    sudo apt-get install build-essential

    This will fetch all the common packages you need to build anything (e.g. the compiler etc.).

  2. Then run

    sudo apt-get build-dep python2.7

    This will fetch all the libraries you need to build python.

  3. Then download the source code for python and decompress it into a directory.

  4. go there and run 

    ./configure --prefix=/path/where/you/want/python/installed

  5. Then make and then make install to get it built and installed:

    make && make install

If you hit snags on the way, ask back here and I’ll try to offer some guidance.

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