How to install Python 3.12 (Latest) on Ubuntu WSL

WSL is taking over the world for Developers working on multiple Environments. I published in the past this guide on How to install python 3.11 on Ubuntu WSL and now is time for getting python 3.11 Installed and Revived.

First. Look at which Python you got.

At the time of my checking Ubuntu22.04 came with python 3.10

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# python3 --version

Python 3.10.12

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~#

Preparation Steps, Updates and Dependencies.

First you want to get your packages updated and install some dependencies.

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# apt update && apt upgrade -y

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease

DeadSnakes is the Repository that maintains the latest releases from Python for Ubuntu. Add the repository.

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

Repository: 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu/ jammy main'

Description:

This PPA contains more recent Python versions packaged for Ubuntu.

Install Python 3.12 (Latest) on Windows for Linux Subsystem WSL.

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# apt install python3.12

You should now be able to see the python version installed.

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# python3.12 --version

Python 3.12.1

Install PiPy

curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.12

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# pip3.12 -V

pip 24.0 from /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/pip (python 3.12)

Create a .venv in Python3.12

You should now be able to create more .venv Environments with Python 3.12

root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# python3.12 -m venv .venv --without-pip


root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# ls -lah

total 32K

drwx------  6 root root 4.0K Feb 13 22:00 .

drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4.0K Feb 13 21:03 ..

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3.1K Oct 15  2021 .bashrc


drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K Feb 13 22:00 .venv


root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# source .venv/bin/activate


(.venv) root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~# python --version

Python 3.12.1

(.venv) root@DESKTOP-9FOROU3:~#

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