select the volume (hard drive or other mediathat you want to use for installing python and click continue the installation type dialog box appears this dialog box performs two tasksclick customize to change the feature set that is installed on your system click change install location to modify the place where the installer places python the book assumes that you're performing standard installation and that you haven' changed the installation location howeverthese options are available in case you want to use them click install the installer may request your administrator password type the administrator name and passwordif requiredinto the dialog box and click ok you see an installing python dialog box the contents of this dialog box will change as the installation process proceeds so that you know what part of python the installer is working with after the installation is completedyou see an install succeeded dialog box click close python is ready to use (you can close the disk image at this point and remove it from your system working with linux some versions of linux come with python installed for exampleif you have red hat package manager (rpm)-based distribution (such as susered hatyellow dogfedora coreand centos)you likely already have python on your system and don' need to do anything else depending on which version of linux you usethe version of python varies and some systems don' include the interactive development environment (idleapplication if you have an older version of python or earlier)you might want to install newer version so that you have access to idle many of the book exercises require use of idle you actually have two techniques to use to install python on linux the following sections discuss both techniques the first technique works on any linux distributionthe second technique has special criteria that you must meet