This can promote searching the distro package manager first for distro compatibility (since being in a distro's repo should mean the version was vetted) these packages are precompiled unless otherwise specified. does have Linux downloads, but in source files, packaged in compressed tarballs. Linux servers are the only officially recommended servers for Python, or so I've read (will edit with source later if I can find it). Most distros use it as one of the languages to build the system and its packages. I can comment on Fedora.įirstly, yes, Python is heavily used in the GNU/Linux world.

You've tagged this as both RHEL and Fedora.

You can choose between existing 3.6 or install 3.8 or 3.9 to the side.Two notes: I'm not sure how your container is set. # alternatives -set python3 /usr/bin/python3.9įor options, see output of dnf list python3*. As mentioned, RedHat is likely to offer their own support after that end-of-life.Įasy fix. See PEP 494 - Python 3.6 Release Schedule for more. However, officially support for 3.6 will end in 7 months. I wonder why it took them that many years.Īs promised, there is no python, but there is python3. Finally they have a solution for this and have made different versions of stable software available. The price to pay for stableness is pretty steep with RHEL. If you talk about any rapid-moving piece of softare like GCC or NodeJS or Python or MariaDB or. The only problem with that approach is the trouble of getting newer versions. They do move into newer versions rarely generating the feeling of obsoletion, staleness and being stable to the point of RedHat supporting otherwise obsoleted software themselves. RHEL has the history of being 'stuck' in the past.

See What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta? for more info. Obviously the distro had Python, but the command didn't exist. Back in 2018 RHEL 8 had their future-binoculars set to transitioning over deprecated Python 2 into 3 and were the first ones not to have a python.

Redhat install python 3