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Author: cheeyeo

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+title: Compile and install python 3.13 on Ubuntu 20.04
+date: 2025-03-11 00:00:00
+categories: ubuntu python 
+---
+
+While trying to compile and install python from source on Ubuntu 20.04, I kept hitting the following error on after running make:
+
+```
+Need to install the following packages:
+
+__dbm __tkinter
+```
+
+To fix the issue, I had to install the following packages:
+```
+sudo apt get update && sudo apt get install libgdbm-compat-dev tk-dev
+```
+
+To install python 3.13.2, the full set of commands become:
+```
+sudo apt get update
+
+sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev libgdbm-compat-dev tk-dev wget
+
+wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.13.0/Python-3.13.2.tgz
+
+tar -xvf Python-3.13.2.tgz
+
+cd Python-3.13.2
+
+./configure --enable-optimizations
+
+make -j 4
+
+sudo make altinstall
+
+python3.13 --version
+```
+
+Creating a virtual env from the new python install:
+```
+python3.13 -m venv myvenv
+
+source myvenv/bin/activate
+```