How To Install Python on Fedora 35

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Python on Fedora 35. For those of you who didn’t know, Python is a widely used, interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. It is very friendly and easy to learn.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Python programming language on a Fedora 35.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Fedora 35 or Fedora 34.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• An active internet connection.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Python on Fedora 35

Step 1. Before proceeding, update your Fedora operating system to make sure all existing packages are up to date. Use this command to update the server packages:

sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf update

Step 2. Installing Python on Fedora 35.

By default, Python is available on Fedora 35 base repository. Now run the following command below to install Python on your Fedora system:

• To install python3, run this command as a sudo user:

sudo dnf install python3

Check the python version:

python3 --version

• To install python3, run this command as a sudo user:

sudo dnf install python2

Check the latest version installed of python using the below command:

python2 --version

Step 3. Setting the Default Python Version.

Now run the following command below to set the correct one in the system path:

• To set Python3 as the default:

sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

• To set Python2 as the default:

sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python2

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Python. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Python programming language on your Fedora 35 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Python website.