install python there' good chance that your ubuntu distribution already has python installedbut it probably won' be the latest versionand it may be python instead of python to find out what version(syou haveopen terminal window and try the following commandspython --version python --version one or more of these commands should respond with versionas belowpython --version python your version number may vary if the version shown is python or version of python that is less than then you want to install the latest version how you install python on ubuntu depends on which version of ubuntu you're running you can determine your local ubuntu version by running the following commandlsb_release - no lsb modules are available distributor idubuntu descriptionubuntu lts release codenamebionic look at the version number next to release in the console outputand follow the corresponding instructions below