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python-3.10 - High-level, object-oriented, interpreted programming language ChangeLog

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Repository:	https://github.com/python/cpython
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HOWTO

# Python 3.10.17 (released 2025-04-08)
# =============
# See the main Python HOWTO for general information and then continue here
# for information specific to 3.10.x releases

# Prerequisites:
# OpenSSL (for Python's socket module)
# pkg-config
# Tcl/Tk (for _tkinter)

# If you're about to upgrade from 3.9.x to 3.10.x, read this:
# What's New In Python 3.10
# for info about changes between the two versions.  For more info read
# Misc/NEWS.

# Python 3.14.0a7, 3.13.3, 3.12.10, 3.11.12, 3.10.17 and 3.9.22 are now available
# Python 3.10.17 Release Notes
# Python 3.10.17 Changelog
# PEP 619 - Python 3.10 Release Schedule
# Download Python (includes PGP key info)
# Python Source Releases
# Python Developer's Guide: Setup and building
# Python Documentation
# Python Mailing Lists
# Python Wiki
# PyPI (Python Package Index)

# Get the source tarball
cd
test -f installed/Python-3.10.17.tar.xz && mv installed/Python-3.10.17.tar.xz .
test ! -f Python-3.10.17.tar.xz &&
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.17/Python-3.10.17.tar.xz

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
# (from the Python site)
echo "ff1fefaa34ba591d2a83f52dfa039921  Python-3.10.17.tar.xz" | md5sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ sha256sum:
# (this came from my md5sum and gpg-verified tarball)
echo "4c68050f049d1b4ac5aadd0df5f27941c0350d2a9e7ab0907ee5eb5225d9d6\
b0  Python-3.10.17.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
( gpg --list-keys B26995E310250568 > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
  gpg --recv-keys B26995E310250568 ) &&
wget -nc http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.17/\
Python-3.10.17.tar.xz.asc &&
  gpg --verify Python-3.10.17.tar.xz.asc && rm Python-3.10.17.tar.xz.asc

# Extract it
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "Python-3.*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xJvf ~/Python-3.10.17.tar.xz
cd Python-3.10.17
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# I used to apply a patch to change various things from /lib/ to /lib64/
# which configure's --libdir was not handling.  Now there is a
# --with-platlibdir=lib64 that will help that, but even with that, you
# will still end up with a /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/
# See Slackware64 source for the python package for patches if
# needed.

## Configure the build

# If you somehow don't need pip, leave off --with-ensurepip=install
# You could just install it later, but every way I tried to do it a while
# back with 2.x, I'd get stuck with a dependency loop between the get-pip.py
# script needing urllib3, not having it, that requires something else, ...

# If you want to enable optimizations, use ... --enable-optimizations

# If you have source-installed OpenSSL < 1.1.0 with the default prefix of
# /usr/local/ssl and are 64-bit, you may need to use this at the beginning of
# configure:
# LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib64

# If you are 64-bit:
test $(uname -m) = 'x86_64' &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--enable-shared \
--without-static-libpython \
--with-platlibdir=lib64 \
--with-ensurepip=install \
--with-system-expat \
--enable-optimizations

# If you are not 64-bit, no need to add anything for /usr/lib:
test $(uname -m) != 'x86_64' &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--enable-shared \
--without-static-libpython \
--with-ensurepip=install \
--with-system-expat \
--enable-optimizations

# Build it
make -j $(nproc)

# Test the build (some tests may require su/sudo)
make test

# Become root to clean up old files and to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware packages, if there are any installed:
test -x /sbin/removepkg &&
/sbin/removepkg python python3 python-demo python-pillow python-setuptools \
python-tools

## Install the new version

# Use 'make install' will give you 'python3' and 'python3.10' but not
# update 'python'.  Remove any existing ones, then create a symlink below
# if necessary.  ...or just get used to running 'python3' and 'pip3'.
( cd /usr/bin ; rm -f python python-config pip )

# If you use 'make altinstall' instead, that will only install them as
# 'pythonX.X' so you can upgrade older versions without overwriting
# whatever version python3, python3-config, pip3 are now.

# Install it also making python3, python3-config, pip3 version 3.10
make install
ldconfig

# Right now if you run 'python3' or 'python3.10' you will get Python 3.10.17
# Right now if you run 'pip3' or 'pip3.10' you will get pip 3.10.17

# If you want to be able to run python, python-config, pip, etc. with
# no version (python3.10) and not even 3 (python3), create symlinks.
# Some of these may be fine already, but some may not, so just update
# all of them.  Rather than testing symlink/file, seeing what the
# shebang line points to, just remove them and then create a symlink.
( cd /usr/bin
  rm -f 2to3 pip pydoc python python-config
  ln -s 2to3-3.10 2to3
  ln -s pydoc3 pydoc
  ln -s python3 python
  ln -s python3-config python-config
  ln -s pip3 pip )

# You should have a /usr/include/python3.10/, and more if you have other
# versions of Python installed

# And you should have a /usr/lib*/libpython3.10.so.1
# and a /usr/lib*/libpython3.10.so symlink pointing to libpython3.10.so.1
# and a /usr/lib*/libpython3.so

# And in /usr/lib*/pkgconfig/ you should have:
# python-3.10-embed.pc
# python3-embed.pc symlink pointing to python-3.10.embed.pc
# python-3.10.pc
# python3.pc symlink pointing to python-3.10.pc

# And you should have /usr/lib*/python3.10/

# And in /usr/man/man1/ you should have:
# python3.10.1 ('man python3.10')
# python3.1 symlink pointing to python3.10.1 ('man python3')

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# If you used 'make altinstall' and already had a previous version of Python
# installed, then the python and python-config symlinks should still point
# to the previous version.
# If you used the regular 'make install' and now you want 'python' and
# 'python3' to run an older one, you will need to create symlinks pointing
# to that one.

# If you want to upgrade pip, with pip, run the following:
/usr/bin/python3.10 -m pip install --upgrade pip

# For pip usage use 'pip3 --help' or 'pip3.10 install --help'
pip3.10 --version
pip3 --version
pip --version

# Become yourself again
exit

# Keep the tarball for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/Python-3.10.*.tgz installed/Python-3.10.*.tar.*
mv Python-3.10.17.tar.xz installed/