Python3.6 installed but version showing as 3.5.2

Question

I am on an Ubuntu virtual machine and I am trying to update my version of python on the command line. I followed the instructions here and eventually ran $ sudo apt-get install python3.6 but when I run python3 --version it tells me my python version is 3.5.2

I am following a tutorial on heroku about building a web app using python for the server side and it says I need python3.6 installed. But when I got to the step where it was really needed, I found out it wasn't actually installed.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Installing the python3.6 package doesn't touch your existing system Python installation. Python 3.5 is still installed as you saw by the output of $python3 --version . To invoke Python 3.6, you can use: $python3.6