UW-Madison Department of Chemistry HPC Center

Python

Python setup

  • Go to https://www.python.org/downloads/source/
  • Choose the “gzipped source tarball” for the Python release you want and copy the link location to be used with the wget command below
  • ssh to kestrel and perform the following commands to compile and install Python:

cd
mkdir python3
cd python3
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.5/Python-3.10.5.tgz (or your preferring version from the link you copied above)
tar xzvf Python-3.10.5.tgz
cd Python-3.10.5
./configure --prefix=/home/YOURUSERNAME/python3/
make
make install

  • Use the following 2 commands to use your Python environment:

export PATH=/home/YOURUSERNAME/python3/bin:$PATH
export PYTHONPATH=/home/YOURUSERNAME/python3