A lot of developers want to go to 3.11 because of the speed improvements, but most distros never have the latest Python version.
Using the deadsnakes third party repo is the easiest way aside from compiling it yourself (which is safer and recommended):
Step 1 - Add the repo
apt-add-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
If you get an error about requests then install it:........
pip3 install requests
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/.local/bin/pip3", line 7, in
from pip._internal.cli.main import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._internal'
As a quick and temp fix call the OS installed python and not the user .local/bin installed pip3
/usr/bin/pip3 install requests
Collecting requests
Cache e........
This is sure simple if you follow the guide but it took a lot of hacking around to make this work on Debian/Ubuntu!
Now before you ask why bother running wine and python, the reason is because Python executables are NOT cross-platform. If you run pyinstaller in Linux, that binary will only run on Linux and the same if you do it in Windows. So it is preferable if you have a single environment that you can create Linux and Windows binaries from rather than running 2 separate........