https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/37505/install-python-locally-on-shared-linux-server? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/37505/install-python-locally-on-shared-linux-server Tue, 07 Aug 2018 06:13:25 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/37505/install-python-locally-on-shared-linux-server #Install python to local directory #Firstly, I create a folder in my home directory, download the python source and extract it mkdir ~/python cd ~/python wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.11/Python-2.7.11.tgz tar zxfv Python-2.7.11.tgz find ~/python -type d | xargs chmod 0755 cd Python-2.7.11 #Then I compiled the source following its guideline ./configure --prefix=$HOME/python make && make install #Notice the prefix option, it is mandatory for this to work. The value of prefix option is to specify where to put the #related output of make command, by default it is in the /usr/local/ and we don't want that so we use our own #customized directory. #Here comes another important step. By the default, if we type python command, it will use the default python of #the system. We are going to update the environment variables to force the shell to use our new python. Edit #~/.bashrc_profile and add the following lines: export PATH=$HOME/python/Python-2.7.11/:$PATH export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/python/Python-2.7.11 #Finally, refresh the current session by running the command: source ~/.bashrc_profile #You might need to logout and login again for the environment to update properly. At this point, you should be #able to see a new python. To check, run this command: which python #it should show you the path to the python binary file, which is located in your home directory: ~/python/Python-#2.7.11/python Install pip #Pip is a program used to help us easily install python packages After installing python locally as described in #the first step, it is very easy to install pip. #Run the following command to install pip as a local user wget --no-check-certificate https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O - | python - --user #After finishing the installation, we need to update our PATH variable. Open ~/.bashrc_profile and add the #following line: export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH #Again, reload the session by the command source ~/.bashrc_profile or logout and login. Then, check if pip #command is available: which pip #It should show a path pointing to your local directory: ~/.local/bin]]> Jit