This post will help you to install Python3.6.0 latest version on Ubuntu or Linuxmint or Debian operating system. The following commands can download and install python in your system.

Prerequisites:

Before you going to install the programming language install prerequisites for Python,



$ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall



$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev


Download : 

Download the latest version of python using wget command and extract it.



$ sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tar.xz



$ sudo tar xf Python-3.6.0.tgz 



$ sudo cd Python-3.6.0


Installations : 

Then, run the commands to configure  and install,


$sudo  ./configure 



$ sudo make



$ sudo make install


If you use make altinstall command to  prevent replacing the default python binary file /usr/bin/python.
  
$ sudo make altinstall


Check your python version using below command,

$ python3.6 -V


or using the python script check the version.