This will get you going with the latest version of pyenv and make it easy to fork and contribute any changes back upstream.
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Check out pyenv where you want it installed. A good place to choose is
$HOME/.pyenv
(but you can install it somewhere else).$ git clone https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
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Define environment variable
PYENV_ROOT
to point to the path where pyenv repo is cloned and add$PYENV_ROOT/bin
to your$PATH
for access to thepyenv
command-line utility.$ echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bash_profile $ echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Zsh note: Modify your
~/.zshenv
file instead of~/.bash_profile
. Ubuntu note: Modify your~/.bashrc
file instead of~/.bash_profile
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Add
pyenv init
to your shell to enable shims and autocompletion. Please make sureeval "$(pyenv init -)"
is placed toward the end of the shell configuration file since it manipulatesPATH
during the initialization.$ echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Zsh note: Modify your
~/.zshenv
file instead of~/.bash_profile
. Ubuntu note: Modify your~/.bashrc
file instead of~/.bash_profile
.General warning: There are some systems where the
BASH_ENV
variable is configured to point to.bashrc
. On such systems you should almost certainly put the abovementioned lineeval "$(pyenv init -)
into.bash_profile
, andnot into.bashrc
. Otherwise you may observe strange behaviour, such aspyenv
getting into an infinite loop. See #264for details. -
Restart your shell so the path changes take effect. You can now begin using pyenv.
$ exec $SHELL
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Install Python versions into
$PYENV_ROOT/versions
. For example, to download and install Python 2.7.8, run:$ pyenv install 2.7.8