For some reason sudo apt install python3.6 doesn't install anything, even after updating and adding repos from which it should pull from.

$ sudo apt install python3.6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'python3.6-2to3' for regex 'python3.6' Note, selecting 'libpython3.6-stdlib' for regex 'python3.6' 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded. 

1 Answer

It turns out most people expect you to install via apt, so finding alternative methods of installing python weren't the easiest so I'll document different methods here

Method 1

The first method that worked for a friend running the same distro as me (pop_os) was to escape the period in the apt install command

sudo apt install python3\.6 

Method 2

Second method is installing directly without an installation tool

# Install dependancies $ sudo apt install build-essential checkinstall $ sudo apt install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev # Retrieve and unzip package $ wget $ tar xvf Python-3.6.0.tar.xz # Make $ cd Python-3.6.0/ $ ./configure $ sudo make altinstall 

If you run into any issue makeing, try installing zlib1g via sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev