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System Administrator

// check log files

/var/log/auth.log

/var/log/apache2/access.log

/var/log/apache2/error.log

/var/log/ufw.log

/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log

/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log

// check active process

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Software Developer

download desired source code in Python's downloads page or CPython's git repository release page

// install build tools and dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libgdbm-dev libdb5.3-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev libffi-dev

tar -xf Python-<version>.tar.xz

cd Python-<version>

./configure --enable-optimizations --with-lto

make -j4 // use -j4 for parallel compilation based on your CPU cores

sudo make install // or make altinstall to install multiple versions

python3

Download preferred Git version

// install dependencies

sudo apt install dh-autoreconf libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev install-info

// optional dependencies for documentation in various formats

sudo apt install asciidoc xmlto docbook2x

// compile and install

tar -zxf git-<version>.tar.gz

cd git-<version>

make configure

./configure --prefix=/usr

make all doc info

sudo make install install-doc install-html install-info

download preferred Python version

compile/install downloaded version

python3 -m venv <path/to/virtual-environment>

source <path/to/virtual-environment>/bin/activate

python3 // check version

System Administrator

Audit integrity of your remote server

Software Developer

Compile and install CPython from source

Compile and install Git from source

Upgrade Python inside a virtual environment