Installing Python 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

UPDATE (Dec, 7): apt-get install python3 works now. this might be the prefered way for most of us.

Based on sofen’s blog’s post about python 2.6

This was the easiest thing I did recently. It went so smooth that this post is totally redundant.

Seven commands and you are all unicode.

Step 1: Make sure you got all the prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libncursesw5-dev libreadline5-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libbz2-dev libc6-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev g++ gcc

Step 2: Grab the bits, extract them and build them

$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/Python-3.0.tgz
$ tar xvzf Python-3.0.tgz
$ cd Python-3.0/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

That’s it my friend. You now have the best software development platform in the entire universe!

$ python3.0
Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Dec  4 2008, 21:27:40)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Good luck and enjoy the sweetness of open source software!