yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel libffi-devel

ls

cd /opt/

ls

mkdir python

cd python/

   ls

   wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.6/Python-3.8.6.tgz

   tar -xzf Python-3.8.6.tgz

   cd Python-3.8.6

   ./configure --enable-optimizations

   make altinstall

   ls

   python3.8 --version

   python --version

   pwd

   pip

   pip3

   ls

   ls pip*

   ls Tools/

   ls

   pip

   ls

   python3.8 -m ensurepip --default-pip

   which python3.8

   ln -s $(which python3.8) $(dirname $(which python3.8))/pip3.8

   ls -ltrh /usr/local/bin/pip3.8

 ls -ltrh /usr/local/bin/

   pip3.8

   python3.8 -m venv python38env

   ls

   ls python38env/

   ls python38env/bin/

   source python38env/bin/activate