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How to install Python 3.6+ version in Kali Linux? – Debian

I need help. I newone in Linux OS and in Python at all.

I need to install python interpreter v. 3.6 for my current project. The reason is – lib, that i would like to use doesn’t work on 3.7+
I use Pycharm and want to set new environment with interpreter 3.6. I know that i can set it in settings/project/python interpreter. But i can see only python v2,v2.7,v3,v3.9.
How can i add 3.6 version? Please, help)

command apt install python3.6 doen’t help me.

└─# apt install python3.6                                                                2 ⨯
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3.6
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.6'

About OS:

└─# cat /etc/os-release                                                                127 ⨯
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2021.1"
VERSION_ID="2021.1"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"

Serge Ballesta helped me. Thanks a lot!
Just for silly ubuntu users like me – "how to install some source distribution"

Extract the .tar.gz or (.tar.bz2) file with the following commands

tar xvzf PACKAGENAME.tar.gz

Navigate to the extracted folder using cd command

cd PACKAGENAME

Now run the following command to install the tarball

./configure

sudo make install
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  1. 0

    Not all Unix distributions offer all Python versions. It is common to only have one Python 2.7.x version and one or two Python 3.y .

    Normally Python 3 has a good ascending compatibility, so a Python 3.9 should run a Python 3.6 without any problem. If you really need a specific version, the desperate way is to get a source distribution from python.org and build it locally. The downside is that this one will not participate in apt version control, so it will not be detected by third party application. But it is the only way I know to have a no longer distribution maintained version.

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  2. 0

    You can write

    $sudo apt-get update

    and then run

    $sudo apt-get python3.6
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  3. 0

    First remove older version

    sudo apt purge -y python2-minimal

    Remove unwanted libraries of old version

    sudo apt autoremove

    install new version

    sudo apt install -y python3-pip

    latest version of python is successfully installed!

    check version

    python --version
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  4. 0

    see details: https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/python3.6

    [2019-02-05] python3.6 3.6.8-1 removed from kali-rolling (KaliRepository

    [2019-01-28] python3.6 3.6.8-1 removed from kali-dev (Kali Repository)

    as seen, python3.6 removed than the Kali repository.

    please, download the python3.6 using following url

    https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360/

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