{"id":44029,"date":"2023-05-26T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=44029"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:31:31","slug":"install-python-3-12-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/install-python-3-12-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Python 3.12 (Final) in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For developers who want to prepare their project for the latest Python releases, here’s how to install Python 3.12 in all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n

Python 3.12 finally goes stable. It features more flexible f-string parsing, Per-Interpreter GIL, new type annotation syntax for generic classes, support for the Linux perf<\/code> profiler, and many performance improvements, but removed the distutils<\/code> package and wstr from Unicode. See more about Python 3.12<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How to Install Python 3.12<\/h3>\n

Python is easy to install in Ubuntu by either using the popular Deadsnakes PPA or building from the source. Choose either one that you prefer.<\/p>\n

Option 1: Install Python 3.12 from PPA<\/h4>\n

For Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and their derivatives such as Linux Mint 21, the Deadsnakes PPA<\/a> has made the packages for all supported CPU architecture types: amd64, arm64\/armhf, ppc64el, and s390x.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> First, press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. Then paste the command below and hit run to add PPA:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes\/ppa<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> Ubuntu 20.04+ automatically refresh package cache while adding PPA. However, Linux Mint user may need to do this job manually by running command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt update<\/pre>\n
3.<\/b> Finally, run command to install Python 3.12:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install python3.12<\/pre>\n
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Option 2: Compile and install Python 3.12 from source<\/h4>\n
Don’t trust third-party repositories or you’re running Ubuntu 23.04 or Ubuntu 18.04? It’s easy to build Python from the source tarball.<\/p>\n
1.<\/b> First download the source tarball from its ftp download page:<\/p>\n
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Python FTP Download Page<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
2.<\/b> Then open ‘Downloads’ folder, extract the source tarball, finally right-click on source folder and select “Open in Terminal”.<\/p>\n
3.<\/b> When terminal opens, run the commands below one by one to configure and build Python:<\/p>\n
.\/configure --enable-optimizations<\/pre>\n
sudo make -j4 && sudo make altinstall<\/pre>\n
NOTE: You have to first install all build dependency libraries before running last 2 commands. See this tutorial<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n
Verify:<\/h3>\n
Once installed Python 3.12, verify by running command:<\/p>\n
python3.12 --version && pip3.12 --version<\/pre>\n
Set Python 3.12 as default<\/h3>\n
It’s NOT recommended to set non-preinstalled Python package as default for Python3, since it will break some core applications.<\/p>\n
However, you may try to set python3.12<\/code> as python<\/code> by running the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n