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I've been trying to upgrade python to 3.7 on a Debian buster server. If I type python3 --version it returns python 3.6.1. However, if I run sudo apt install python3 it returns the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3 is already the newest version (3.7.3-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Likewise running sudo apt-get install python3.7 give the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3.7 is already the newest version (3.7.3-2).
python3.7 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So, it would appear that Python 3.7 is installed but why is it returning the version in use as 3.6.1 ?

Any ideas how I can fix this to use python 3.7 ?

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    Have you looked into linux.die.net/man/8/update-alternatives? Maybe your system wasn't updated to use the new version as the default for python3.
    – Thorian93
    Commented Dec 17, 2019 at 11:32
  • Hi Phill, if this was the answer that helped you, you might want to formulate an answer to your own question and mark it as the answer. Alternatively I can write an answer, which you could mark as the answer. Anyways if someone finds this post, it might be helpful for them to find a clear answer.
    – Thorian93
    Commented Dec 27, 2019 at 9:30

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