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Install pyenv on Ubuntu

  1. Start by running verifying that curl and git are installed: 

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y git curl

  2. Run the curl script: 

    curl https://pyenv.run | bash

  3. Add the following lines to the bashrc file. Run pyenv init if you are not prompted to add these lines. 

    export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

  4. Restart the shell in Ubuntu: 

    exec $SHELL

  5. Display the installed version of the pyenv: 

    pyenv --version

Tip

Depending on how fresh your installation of ubuntu is, you might need to run the following command to install the required packages to be able to build the different versions of python on your system:

sudo apt install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev liblzma-dev