title: How to install Python 3.8.1 on RHEL 8?
body: <p>This is really frustrating.</p>
  
  <p>I want to install the latest version of Python (at the time of this issue: Python 3.8.1) on RHEL 8, (RHEL being one of the most widely used distributions of Linux).</p>
  
  <p>I would like to type:
  <code>#dnf install python</code></p>
  
  <p>and have it install the latest version of Python.</p>
  
  <p>I can't do this, and I do not know why.</p>
  
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  <p>When I go to python.org and click on 'install for Linux' I get a link to the source code.</p>
  
  <p>There are no instructions there as to what to do with the source code.</p>
  
  <p>I do not understand why this is.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want the source code, I want to install python 3.8.1 executables for my platform (RHEL 8).</p>
  
  <p>I search on how to install python 3.8.1 from source and get a long list of dependencies that I have to install and a long list of steps.</p>
  
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  <p>Is this because it is a very rare thing for companies to run Python on Linux?</p>
  
  <p>Can we get together here and make it easy for folks to install Python on Linux?</p>
  
  <p>I'm willing to pay money out of my daily earnings to setup a RHEL 8 repo to get Python 3.8 there if IBM/Redhat is not willing to do this.</p>
  
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  <p>Why does the official Python organization hate Linux?</p>
  
  <p>Why does IBM / Redhat hate Python?</p>
  
  <p>Can we bring the two together in peace and harmony so that they just get along?</p>
  
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  <p>This is very frustrating, I should be able to knock this task out in a few seconds, and it has turned into hours.</p>
  
  <p>The same amount of hours to figure out how to do this is probably done every day by developers all over the world that want to install/run the latest version of Python on Linux (CentOS / RHEL).</p>