Install Python 3.11 on ubuntu

As a pre-requisite, the side-chain toolkit requires python version 3.10 or above to execute.  The following example describes how to best install python 3.11 on Ubuntu.

Upgrade and update Ubuntu to the latest version 

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Install the required packages

sudo apt install wget build-essential libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev \
libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev

Download python 3.11

The latest Python versions are available under the ~deadsnakes team PPA. You can add this PPA to your Ubuntu system with the following command

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

Install it

Then you can install Python 3.11 using the apt-get package manager.

sudo apt install python3.11