I am on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core), installed python3.10.12 from source using the following script sudo yum update sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" sudo yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel \ openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel \ readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel \ libffi-devel xz-devel wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.12/Python-3.10.12.tgz tar -xvf Python-3.10.12.tgz ./configure --enable-optimizations make sudo make altinstall Python 3.10.12 (main, Jul 8 2023, 16:54:43) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.10 /usr/local/bin/python3 But, when trying pip, I got this error There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/tutor/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping Tried to list the ssl modules installed for python3, and got this Also, when trying python3.10 -m ssl I got ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ssl' I found some answer that suggests adding --with-ssl option while building, and another answer that deosn't use this option at all. How can I solve this? Continue reading...
