yum -y update
yum groupinstall -y 'development tools'
Also you need the packages below to enable SSL, bz2, zlib for Python and some utils:
yum install -y zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel xz-libs wget
Download Python and extract it
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/Python-2.7.13.tar.xz
xz -d Python-2.7.13.tar.xz
tar -xvf Python-2.7.13.tar
Download and install OpenSSL from source:
$ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2e.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.2e
$ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/openssl --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
Note: By default openssl will be installed under /usr/local/ssl. If you do not want to mess with existing SSL installation, then install it in the '/usr/local/openssl' directory.
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
OpenSSL installation is done. Let’s us now compile Python.
Enter the Python Modules directory:
cd Python-2.7.13\Modules
Find the following lines of code in the "Setup" file:
# Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
# socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
#SSL=/usr/local/ssl
#_ssl _ssl.c \
#-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
#-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
Uncomment the follwing lines to include SSL support in the Python build
# Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
# socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
SSL=/usr/local/openssl
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
Since we already installed all the dependencies we are ready to go:
Go to the parent Python directory:
cd ..
Run the configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
compile and install it:
make
make altinstall
[root@nicetry ~]# python2.7 -V
Python 2.7.13