Installing Python 3 with virtualenv on CentOS 7

It’s 2016 and CentOS 7 is still defaulting to Python 2.7! Thankfully Python 3 has landed in the EPEL repo and here’s how I got it working with virtualenv on a fresh install of CentOS 7:

• Enable the EPEL repository with:

yum install epel-release

• Install python34 and python-pip packages with:

yum install python34 python-pip

• Update pip and install virtualenv with:

pip install -U pip
pip install -U virtualenv

• Create and activate a new python3 virtualenv with:

virtualenv -p python3 <env_name>

• Activate the environment and code away :D

cd <env_name> && source bin/activate