UbuntuInstall¶
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Building Python from source on Ubuntu
The following packages are required install to get a complete build on Ubuntu.
libbz2-dev
libgdbm-dev
liblzma-dev
libreadline-dev
libsqlite3-dev
libssl-dev
tcl-dev
tk-dev
dpkg-dev (this should solve the _crypt and nis failures)
zlib1g-dev isn’t on the list as it gets installed automatically as a dependency of libssl-dev.