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How do I install Python 3 on an AWS EC2 instance?

I'm trying to install python 3.x on an AWS EC2 instance and:

sudo yum install python3

doesn't work:

No package python3 available.

I've googled around and I can't find anyone else who has this problem so I'm asking here. Do I have to manually download and install it?

Solution

  • If you do a

    sudo yum list | grep python3

    you will see that while they don't have a "python3" package, they do have a "python34" package, or a more recent release, such as "python36". Installing it is as easy as: 

    sudo yum install python34 python34-pip