Installing Python for Linux development

At the time of writing, Python version is 3.12.3, any Python 3 version should work just fine.

Check version number, you may already have a new python3 version installed:

python3 --version

If not, install Python 3 for Linux:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade (updates all packages to newest versions, you may want to skip this)
sudo apt install python3
sudo apt install python3-pip

Python libraries and headers are needed to build iocompython. The iocompython is a C extension to allow use of iocom from Python. To install the Python components for this use:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install python3-dev

Set PYTHONPATH in as last line of .profile file in home directory. When user logs in, the .profile is processed. This enables Python to find iocompython.pyd, etc.

export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:/coderoot/bin/linux

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