Ati Sharma

Using pyenv (on Void linux)

29 Nov 2022

I found nixos overengineered for my purpose so I am using pyenv to manage python versions on Void linux machines and virtual machines.

Installing

As root,

xbps-install base-devel bzip2-devel openssl openssl-devel readline readline-devel sqlite-devel xz zlib zlib-devel libedit-devel libffi-devel liblzma-devel

As a normal user,

curl -L https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer/raw/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Then compile/install python using pyenv

pyenv install 3.9.13

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