This is really frustrating.
I want to install the latest version of Python on RHEL 8, (RHEL being one of the most widely used distributions of Linux).
I would like to type:
#dnf install python
and have it install the latest version of Python.
I can't do this, and don't know why.
When I go to python.org and click on 'install for Linux' I get a link to the source code.
There are no instructions there as to what to do with the source code.
I do not understand why this is.
I don't want the source code, I want to install python 3.8.1 executables for my platform (RHEL 8).
I search on how to install python 3.8.1 from source and get a long list of dependencies that I have to install and a long list of steps.
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Is this because it is a very rare thing for companies to run Python on Linux?
Can we get together here and make it easy for folks to install Python on Linux?
I'm willing to pay money out of my daily earnings to setup a RHEL 8 repo to get Python 3.8 there if IBM/Redhat is not willing to do this.
Why does IBM / Redhat hate Python?
This is very frustrating, I should be able to knock this task out in a few seconds, and it has turned into hours.
The same amount of hours to figure out how to do this is probably done every day by developers all over the world that want to install/run the latest version of Python on Linux (CentOS / RHEL).