Installing pyenv in Amazon Linux EC2

Please find the steps below:

1. Check out pyenv where you want it installed. A good place to choose is $HOME/.pyenv (but you can install it somewhere else).

git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv

2. Define environment variable PYENV_ROOT to point to the path where pyenv repo is cloned and add $PYENV_ROOT/bin to your $PATH for access to the pyenv command-line utility.

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

3. Add pyenv init to your shell to enable shims and autocompletion. Please make sure eval "$(pyenv init -)" is placed toward the end of the shell configuration file since it manipulates PATH during the initialization.

echo -e 'if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then\n  eval "$(pyenv init -)"\nfi' >> ~/.zshrc

4. Restart your shell so the path changes take effect. You can now begin using pyenv.

exec "$SHELL"

5. Install Python build dependencies before attempting to install a new Python version.

yum install gcc zlib-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel readline-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel tk-devel libffi-devel

6. Install Python versions into $(pyenv root)/versions. For example, to download and install Python 2.7.8, run:

pyenv install 2.7.8

I hope this helps.

To know more, please reach out to the source page — https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#basic-github-checkout

Thank you!