How would I build python myself from source code on Ubuntu?

Question

Ubuntu comes with Python 2.7.2+ pre-installed. (I also downloaded the python dev packages.) Because of another issue I\'m having (Explained in extreme depth in How do I repl

Answer 1

You may try using pyenv. I haven't tried it yet. But looking at the sources, it seems very mature to accomplish an installation of any CPython-interpreter on any *ix-system.