If your $HOME/.profile sources $HOME/.bashrc, then these lines must be inserted into $HOME/. # Checks if some text is in a file, and if it isn't, it appends that text at the end of the fileĬheckAndAppend 'export PYENV_ROOT='$HOME/.pyenv'' $profileĬheckAndAppend 'export PATH='$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH'' $profileĬheckAndAppend 'eval '$(pyenv init -path)'' $profileĬheckAndAppend 'eval '$(pyenv init -)'' $bashrcĬheckAndAppend 'eval '$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)'' $bashrcĬheckAndAppend 'source $HOME/.profile' $bash_profile sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev lzma If you want to install Python 3.7 on Jessie with SSL, you need to compile a local version of openssl first and link to that when compiling Python itself. This method happens a lot faster, the first installation takes about an hour. Debian 8 Jessie does not provide the Python 3.7 required version of libssl in order to compile with SSL support. Sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev wget liblzma-dev lzmaīut you should probably just install it with pyenv, here's a script that will install pyenv on linux, and then install python 3.7.9. With this script, I was able to install python3.7 on ubuntu 18 curPath=$

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