How I install python 3.8 on centos 7

 Issue : 

when I want to install python 3.8 on my centos server and direct download from server with extension tar.gz

it will extract and I will run  

sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations

and it shown 

configure: error: in `/home/user/Python-3.8.12':

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

See `config.log' for more details

solution :

I install old version python 3.6 via yum and it will replaced with newest version from your download

sudo yum update -y

sudo yum install -y python3

and now python 3.6 installed on your system

check with

python3

will show 

Python 3.6.8 (default, Aug 7 2019, 17:28:10) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>

now replace with new one

download dependency builder

sudo yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel -y

download your python if you dont have gz file 

curl -O https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.1/Python-3.8.1.tgz

extract this file 

tar -xzf Python-3.8.1.tgz

now go to your extract directory 

cd Python-3.8.1/

and you can type 

./configure --enable-optimizations

it should be success no error and will generate Makefile and the console will be

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating Makefile.pre

config.status: creating Misc/python.pc

config.status: creating Misc/python-embed.pc

config.status: creating Misc/python-config.sh

config.status: creating Modules/ld_so_aix

config.status: creating pyconfig.h

creating Modules/Setup.local

creating Makefile

if it done run the last command to build to executable file

make altinstall

and its done

check it with command

python3.8

will out

Python 3.8.12 (default, Mar 12 2022, 09:41:14)

[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)] on linux

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

yes it installed 2 verstion,  if you wnt to run first python3 to run your installation from yum and python3.8 to run from your own build

thanks and hope it help