I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.2, on which I try to install Python3.6.1, and I have done this multiple times in the past, but for some reason I tried it 3 times since yesterday but I kept having the same error message. here are the steps that i have taken for my installation. mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.1/Python-3.6.1.tar.xz
mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ tar xvf Python-3.6.1.tar.xz mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get installbuild-essential checkinstall mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get installlibreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-devlibgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev mariejosv@ubuntu:~$ cd Python-3.6.1 mariejosv@ubuntu:~/Python-3.6.1$ ./configure mariejosv@ubuntu:~/Python-3.6.1$sudo make altinstall # after this line, the following message will popup at some point Please help. Thanks Joseph _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor