Install particular version of Python on CentOS 7

Prerequisites

1. CentOS 7.x 
2. Root Access

You can install any of python version 3.x, download it from here

1. Installation set-up for Python3.7.0

we are installing python version 3.7.0.

Go to ‘/usr/src’ path

cd /usr/src

Download python version 3.7.0.

sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tar.xz

2. untar downloaded package

sudo tar -xvf Python-3.7.0.tar.xz

3. Installation of Python on CentOS

Go to ‘Python-3.7.0’ path

cd Python-3.7.0

Installation of gcc compiler and openssl-devel

sudo yum install gcc

sudo yum install openssl-devel

4. Configuration of python

sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/python3

sudo make altinstall

sudo ln -s /opt/python3/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3.7

5. Check installation

python3.7 --version

The output from CMD:

$ python3.7 --version

Python 3.7.0