Install Python 3

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1. Preparing The System

Update system default applications:

yum update

Install required packages for building python:

yum install openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel gcc wget

2. Build Python 3 From Source Code

Download the latest stable Python 3 source code files from https://www.python.org/downloads/source/. MiaRecWeb was tested with Python v.3.4

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.3/Python-3.4.3.tgz

Extract source code:

tar -xzvf Python-3.*.tgz

Build Python binaries:

cd Python-3*
./configure --enable-shared
make

Option --enable-shared is necessary in order to create shared library *.so files, which will be used later when compiling Apache mod_wsgi module.

3. Install Python

Normally, one would use “make install”; however, in order not to override system defaults - replacing the Python already used by the system - we will use make altinstall.

make altinstall

This will install python into /usr/local/bin with name, which contains version, like /usr/local/bin/python3.4.

4. Add Python Shared Libraries To PATH

By default Python installed *.so files into /usr/local/lib On some RedHat-based systems this directory is not searched when loading shared libraries. To fix that, you need to edit file /etc/ld.so.conf.

vi /etc/ld.so.conf

Add the following line to that file:

/usr/local/lib

Run ldconfig:

ldconfig