How to install python3-dev in Oracle Linux?

Question

How can I install python3-dev in Oracle Linux?

yum install python3-dev is not working.

It gives a message:

No package python3-dev available.

I need python3-dev to convert a python script to Linux executable using Cython.

I tried to search rpm files, that also did not work.

Answer 1

friend, OL6 and OL7 repo havent python 3, only 2

then:

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.5/Python-3.6.5.tar.xz
xz -d Python-3.6.5.tar.xz
tar -xvf Python-3.6.5.tar
cd Python-3.6.5
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install

if no step goes wrong, take a coffe, wait about 10 minutes in make test phase and be happy.

Answer 2

The hard way is with the following statements:

Note I used oraclelinux:7-slim docker container

yum -y install wget \
    && yum -y install gcc readline readline-devel \
    && yum -y install zlib zlib-devel \
    && yum -y install libffi-devel openssl-devel \
    && yum -y install tar gzip \
    && yum -y install make \
    && yum clean all

  wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.5/Python-3.7.5.tgz \
     && tar -xf Python-3.7.5.tgz \
     && cd Python-3.7.5 \
     && ./configure --enable-optimizations \
     && make \
     && make test
     && make install

And the easy way is:

yum update \
&& yum -y install python3