Installing python3 on Linux

Python comes pre-installed on most Linux distros. But if for whichever reason it isn’t installed on yours, we’ll install it in the next section.

First, let’s update and upgrade your system

If you are on Ubuntu, run:

 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

For Arch, run:

sudo pacman -Syu

Fedora:

sudo dnf upgrade

Now let’s install python (plus some extra packages you will most definitely eventually need when using python)

Ubuntu

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv

Arch

sudo pacman -S python python-pip python-virtualenv

Fedora

sudo dnf install python3 python3-pip python3-virtualenv python3-devel

Regardless of which distro you are running, confirm python is installed by running

python --version

If that command runs successfully (prints out what python version is installed) then you are ready to run python programs on your system.

Should you face any errors, it surely is the case someone has faced them before online and they got the answer posted. If that does not help, please drop your issue in the comment section and someone , including me, could provide you with assistance.

Hope that helped. Happy Hacking.