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First SSH Into your account (using putty, or terminal if you are on linux) where we will start by moving to our home directory (~) and creating a directory for the latest python.

cd ~
mkdir python27
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.4/Python-2.7.4.tgz
tar xzvf Python-2.7.4.tgz
cd Python-2.7.4
./configure -prefix=/homeX/your_username/python27 --enable-unicode=ucs4
make
make install

We then add this python directory to our PATH environment variable and load it (more…)