[Tutor] New to Linux, trying to install python 3 - please help :)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 09Jul2020 20:19, mdrotts <mdrotts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone! Assistance is greatly appreciated!D. 
>    On Thursday, July 9, 2020, 01:43:38 PM EDT, alexkleider via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>
> On my Debian 10 system 'apt install python3' would bring in python3.7. (Unnecessary since it's already there by default.)
>I believe the goal is to bring in python3.8 and if so is there any 
>option other than to build locally?

My Ubuntu system has a "python3.8" package. What does:

    apt-cache search python | grep 3.8

get you? You may find that the default "python3" will remain 3.7 until 
you update to the next release, but that does not prevent you installing 
3.8 as well.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>