Installing Python on Ubuntu Linux 18.04

Installing Python on Windows, macOS, and Linux Darren Jones 01:22

Unlike previous versions of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 18.04 does not have Python 2 pre-installed, it ships with Python 3.6.7 instead. In this video you’ll learn how to update Python 3.6.7 to the latest Python 3.7 release.

00:00 Installing Python on Ubuntu 18.04. Launching the terminal will allow you to check the Python versions that are installed. python --version shows that Python 2 isn’t installed but Python 3 is.

00:21 And in this case, it’s a little out of date and it needs to be updated. On Ubuntu 18, Python 3.7 is in the standard repositories, so it’s merely a case of sudo apt-get update and putting in a password for the first time.

00:40 And then once that update is complete, sudo apt-get install python3.7 idle-python3.7 will get the software you need installed. y will confirm that you want to install it, and then it will be downloaded and installed automatically.

01:10 Once it’s installed and set up, idle-python3.7 will open IDLE and allow you to start developing.

Ru551and on July 9, 2020

it was easy :)

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