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True, but are there any decent repos for installing python3? Even with 2.7 I generally have to build it myself. I loathe having to use RH5 and RH6 due to how old they seem.

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Python 3 may see more adoption if they provided .rpms and .debs directly. When you have to install python on 100s or 1000s of machines, doing them one by one is simply impractical.

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I haven't been able to find any good repo (recent, maintained, reputable maintainer) unfortunately. I usually end up compiling them myself. I was actually surprised how easy it is, nevertheless a (possibly official) repo would be _very_ nice.

Fedora has the ability to install python3 alongside the system python2.7, so there is probably an official rpm you can just pull from the Fedora repos.

edit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/python3

By the time you're looking at deploying to hundreds or thousands of hosts, it seems that you would be creating and controlling your own repo's. Thankfully building Python is straight forward, so building a rpm shouldn't be too painful.

Though it did seem odd that there wasn't already a repo for Python 3, so a little googling found this -

http://iuscommunity.org/pages/About.html

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