I downloaded the Python 3.5 source code and ran the following:
$ tar -xf Python-3.5.2.tar.xz
$ ./configure --with-ensurepip=upgrade
$ make
$ sudo make altinstall
It proceeded well until make. When sudo make altinstall ran, it printed:
Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 8.1.1 requires SSL/TLS
What went wrong?
You are most likely not compiling Python with SSL/TLS support - this is likely because you don't have the SSL development dependencies installed on your system.
Install the following dependency, and then re-configure and re-compile Python 3.5.
Ubuntu
apt-get install libssl-dev
In addition it is recommended to install the following.
apt-get install make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libsqlite3-dev
CentOS
yum install openssl-devel
In addition it is recommended to install the following.
yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel
Please note that besides that as of version OpenSSL 1.1.0 (included from Ubuntu 18.04 repositories, I am not sure for other Linux distributions) there are python vesions that may have compilation issues (see this question and my answer), in short:
Python <3.4.5 and Python <3.5.3 have not implemented this newest version of OpenSSL, most likely other major Python versions suffer the same issue. The fix is to download the minor version that implements the fix (or newer). Check the full changelogs to check which minor version that is (changelog for 3.4 and 3.5)
I tried to install Python 3.4.10 using asdf but got following error:
$ asdf install python 3.4.10
python-build 3.4.10 /home/br0ke/.asdf/installs/python/3.4.10
Downloading Python-3.4.10.tar.xz...
-> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.10/Python-3.4.10.tar.xz
Installing Python-3.4.10...
ERROR: The Python ssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib?
Please consult to the Wiki page to fix the problem.
https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems
BUILD FAILED (Fedora 30 using python-build 1.2.15-2-g22c02022)
Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/python-build.20191121110112.9959
Results logged to /tmp/python-build.20191121110112.9959.log
Last 10 log lines:
(cd /home/br0ke/.asdf/installs/python/3.4.10/share/man/man1; ln -s python3.4.1 python3.1)
if test "xupgrade" != "xno" ; then \
case upgrade in \
upgrade) ensurepip="--upgrade" ;; \
install|*) ensurepip="" ;; \
esac; \
./python -E -m ensurepip \
$ensurepip --root=/ ; \
fi
Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 9.0.1 requires SSL/TLS
It may mean that I have too fresh OpenSSL version installed in my system and this version is not supported by Python I'm trying to build. I managed to install Python 3.4.10 on my Fedora 30 machine (has OpenSSL 1.1+ by default) using the following steps:
$ sudo dnf remove openssl-devel
$ sudo dnf install compat-openssl10 compat-openssl10-devel
asdf but it should work with pyenv as well):$ asdf install python 3.4.10
$ sudo dnf remove compat-openssl10-devel
$ sudo dnf install openssl-devel
Inspired by this workaround with help from Fedora community people.
