asdf conquer python

An easy guide to install python using asdf

I just speack about asdf into Muliple version of kubectl? Easy with asdf it is a software that allow you to use and configure simply version of nodejs, ruby, kubectl, terraform and many command line tools.

In this article we can see how to configure python plugin.

Install requirements

Asdf will compile something so to install python you need the following libraries (simple ubuntu installation list):

sudo apt-get install build-essential \
  zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev \
  libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev liblzma-dev 

Configure plugin

Add the python plugin:

asdf plugin-add python

Install Python

Now we are ready to install python simply with:

asdf install python 3.11.5

Conclusions

Asdf are very usefull and it reach any lib I need, an interesting thing is that the asdf installed lib works also in other distrobox system.

Continue to use open source and contribute!