Install Python 3.11 on Ubuntu

To install the latest Python 3.11 version, you can use “deadsnakes” team PPA which contains more recent Python versions packaged for Ubuntu.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python3.11

If you want to install a specific Python version or multiple versions of Python in your Ubuntu system, you can simply run the following command with the Python version number as shown.

$ sudo apt install python3.10
$ sudo apt install python3.9
$ sudo apt install python3.8
$ sudo apt install python3.7
$ sudo apt install python3.6

To view a list of all Python binaries installed on your system, run the following ls command.

$ ls -l /usr/bin/python*

List Python Binaries
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      10 Apr 22  2022 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.10
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5901416 Apr  2  2022 /usr/bin/python3.10
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6705016 Oct 24 15:56 /usr/bin/python3.11
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     960 Dec 23  2020 /usr/bin/python3-futurize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     964 Dec 23  2020 /usr/bin/python3-pasteurize

From the output in the screenshot above, the default Python version on the test system is 3.10, you can also check the Python version using the following command.

$ python -V

Python 3.10.4