Le 2021-03-03 à 04:17, Steven Robbins a écrit : > I'm trying to use a (non-Debian) python system built on python 3.8. Debian's > default is currently 3.9 so I am advised to use a virtual environment.
As other told, the right way is probably to compile it yourself (or use pyenv, but I don't like pyenv "shims", I prefer to keep it simple). I'm using a bash function [1] to easily recompile needed Pythons (I test some projects with Python 3.5 to 3.9), but it's not that hard without my bash function: apt install make build-essential libbz2-dev liblzma-dev libssl-dev llvm libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev tk-dev libsqlite3-dev xz-utils wget the version you want from https://www.python.org/ftp/python tar -xzf it ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/ make -j $(nproc) make altinstall You'll get a `python3.8` binary in ~/.local/bin, you can create venvs with it as: python3.8 -m venv the_venv_path [1]: https://github.com/JulienPalard/dotfiles/blob/0b5feb79b1ba648b7212162b68da5a182e0341c1/.bashrc#L196 -- [Julien Palard](https://mdk.fr)