$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libncursesw5-dev libreadline5-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libbz2-dev libc6-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev g++ gcc
Step 2: Grab the bits, extract them and build them
$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/Python-3.0.tgz
$ tar xvzf Python-3.0.tgz
$ cd Python-3.0/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Python 3.0 (r30:67503, May 29 2011, 02:31:02)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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