How do I install Python 3 on an AWS EC2 instance?

Question

I'm trying to install Python 3.x on an AWS EC2 instance and:

sudo yum install python3

doesn't work:

No package python3 available.

I've googled around and I can't find anyone else who has this problem so I'm asking here. Do I have to manually download and install it?

Answer 1

If you give this command

sudo yum list | grep python3

You will see all the available python installation packages, liike “python34” or “python46”. Choose one and provide the below command according to that.

sudo yum install python36