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I am setting up a raspberry pi with OS: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye), and it comes with 3.9.x and I need ver 3.11. Below is what I get when I add the repository (any suggestions what to do here?)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 95, in <module> sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__ self.reload_sourceslist() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 91, in get_sources raise NoDistroTemplateException( aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/bullseye
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Reset to default
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Other than relying on APT repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa, You can go ahead fetching the python 3.11 source code from the python.org using wget

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.4/Python-3.11.4.tgz

Now install the build tools and git.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev git

Configure, make and install

tar -xzvf Python-3.11.4.tgz cd Python-3.11.4/ ./configure --enable-optimizations sudo make altinstall

This will install Python 3.11 in your Raspberry but in order to make it default, you have to remove the link to /usr/bin/python3 and link python3.11

sudo rm /usr/bin/python sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python

Check the python version by python -VV

Python 3.11.4

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Changing the default Python version could break some systems. I recommend to call it with python3.11 and using virtualenv

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