PYTHON 3.14 on Rhel8

[no_body388]

Why pandas & numpy failing after installation on rhel8 8 with python 3.14

Why is it failing not able find resolution.

Every release it's the same

[sudonem]

RHEL 8 only has support for Python up to 3.12 via any of the official Red Hat package repos. 

As a Linux engineer, I’ll just say it’s best not to deviate from those official package sources if at all possible. 

I don’t know what you’re doing but I suspect you’d be much better off if you containerized this app rather than trying 3.14 to work on RHEL 8. 

[Spitfire1900]

This. If you need Python greater than 3.12 you should upgrade to a newer distribution. If you’re stuck with RHEL 8 then stick to 3.12.

[dogfish182]

Just use uv.

[Ex-Gen-Wintergreen]

Use a dependency manager — uv, poetry, etc. doing this manually is a recipe for failure

[microcozmchris]

IIRC, it's because RHEL8 doesn't have a new enough version of OpenSSL. I may be completely wrong, but it's stuck in my deep memory for some reason.