1. Install Python Development Environment

1.1. By package manager

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python-is-python3

Windows

Python 3.13 can be installed from Microsoft Store.

MSYS2

$ pacman -S ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python
$ pacman -S ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python-pip

1.2. Build from sources

Download sources:

$ curl -LO https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.14/Python-3.10.14.tgz

CentOS 8

Extract files:

$ tar -C ~/workspace/devel/ -xzf Python-3.10.14.tgz
$ cd ~/workspace/devel/Python-3.10.14/

Install dependent packages before building:

$ sudo dnf install -y libffi-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel xz-devel openssl-devel uuid-devel sqlite-devel libnsl2-devel

Configure, build and install:

$ ./configure --enable-optimizations
$ make -j
$ sudo make install

Create symbolic links:

$ sudo ln -snf pip3.10 /usr/local/bin/pip3
$ sudo ln -snf pip3.10 /usr/local/bin/pip