1. Requirements
This Python installation required GCC compiler on your system. Use following command
yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel
2. Download Python 3*
Download Python using the following command. In this example we use python 3.6.0
cd /usr/src wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.9/Python-3.6.0.tgz
Next extract the downloaded package using below command.
tar xzf Python-3.6.0.tgz
3. Install Python 3.6
Below set of commands are used to compile Python source code on your system using altinstall.
cd Python-3.6.0 ./configure --enable-optimizations make altinstall
Note that: make altinstall is used to prevent replacing the default python binary file /usr/bin/python .
Now remove downloaded source archive file from your system
rm /usr/src/Python-3.6.0.tgz
4. Check Python Version
python3.6 -V
Python 3.6.0