Installing Python 2.7 without root

Question

I tried installing Python 2.7 without root on a remote linux machine. I ran the commands

./configure prefix=/  
make install DESTDIR=/xxx/yyy/ 

Answer 1

Instead of building from source manually, I'd suggest letting linuxbrew do the build for you. DigitalOcean has a nice tutorial on installing linuxbrew. Once that's complete, you can just say brew install python and have a nicely managed python installation, including pip.