## USING PYTHON ON UNIX PLATFORMS 

## 2.1 Getting and installing the latest version of Python 

## 2.1.1 On Linux 

Python comes preinstalled on most Linux distributions, and is available as a package on all others. However there are certain features you might want to use that are not available on your distro’s package. You can easily compile the latest version of Python from source. 

In the event that Python doesn’t come preinstalled and isn’t in the repositories as well, you can easily make packages for your own distro. Have a look at the following links: 

See also: 

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html for Debian users 

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Packaging for OpenSuse users 

https://docs-old.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch-creating-rpms.html for Fedora users 

http://www.slackbook.org/html/package-management-making-packages.html for Slackware users 

## 2.1.2 On FreeBSD and OpenBSD 

• FreeBSD users, to add the package use: 

pkg install python3 

• OpenBSD users, to add the package use: 

pkg_add -r python pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/<insert your ␣ ↪ → architecture here>/python-<version>.tgz 

For example i386 users get the 2.5.1 version of Python using: 

pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/i386/python 

