["python","python-3.x","rhel"]
Installing Python 3 on RHEL

I'm trying to install python3 on RHEL using the following steps: yum search python3 Which returned No matches found for: python3 Followed by: yum search python None of the search results contained python3. What should I try next?
It is easy to install python manually (i.e. build from source): Download (there may be newer releases on Python.org): $ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.3/Python-3.4.3.tar.xz Unzip $ tar xf Python-3.* $ cd Python-3.* Prepare compilation $ ./configure Build $ make Install $ make install OR if you don't want to overwrite the python executable (safer, at least on some distros yum needs python to be 2.x, such as for RHEL6) - you can install python3.* as a concurrent instance to the system default with an altinstall: $ make altinstall Now if you want an alternative installation directory, you can pass --prefix to the configurecommand. Example: for 'installing' Python in /opt/local, just add --prefix=/opt/local. After the make install step: In order to use your new Python installation, it could be, that you still have to add the [prefix]/bin to the $PATH and [prefix]/lib to the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (depending of the --prefix you passed)