Update python on linux 2.7 to 3.5

Question

So I updated python using these instructions:

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev l         


        

Answer 1

//install python 3.6

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.6

//change default python

sudo rm /usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

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