How to install a specific Python version on Linux

Hello, 👋 In this article I will show you how to install Python versions on Linux using the following methods: compiling from source, dead snakes ppa and pyenv. To make things easier, if you want to follow along in an environment that you can break, you can create a local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube. Next, I’m going to use the following yaml file to create an Ubuntu pod: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: ubuntu labels: app: ubuntu spec: containers: - image: ubuntu command: - "sleep" - "604800" imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent name: ubuntu restartPolicy: Always Save the above yaml in a file ubuntu_pod.yaml and run: ...

February 5, 2022 · 2 min · Denis Nuțiu

Introduction to Pyenv for Linux Users

Hello, In this article I will introduce you to pyenv, a tool for managing python environments. Installing pyenv is pretty straight forward, you’ll need to clone the repo and add the binaries to the path. For a typical Debian based distro using the Zsh shell the instructions would be: git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc Then, in order for this to take effect, you need to reload the shell with: source ~/.zshrc, or just restart your terminal. 😀 ...

June 27, 2020 · 4 min · Denis Nuțiu