Posts by versluis

How to install Python 3 from source in CentOS

Posted on Nov 7, 2016

CentOS 6 comes with Python 2.6 installed, and CentOS 7 comes with Python 2.7. But right now, Python 3.5 is all the rage, so I thought I’d install it alongside Python 2.x on the same machine....

Learn More

How to extract tar.xz files on CentOS

Posted on Nov 6, 2016

I’ve recently come across a tarsal files that used xz compression (namely the Python source code). This means that my usual way of extracting a tarsal via the command line using the following command...

Learn More