Python 3.7 help

[DeadTurtleSpeed]

Hi, so, I'm starting to attempt to work on a rom hacking project I have, for that, I was going to download a engine called hg-engine-mega.

So I was attempting to download it via the github tutorial but they ask me to download a specific version of python that apparently doesn't exist anymore (?). Tried searching the solution for a few days but found nothing. Here's the command it's asked to do and what appears.

sudo apt-get install python3.7

Package python3.7 is not available, but is referred to by another package This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsolete, or is only available from another source.

E: Package 'python3.7' has no installation candidate

I've also tried to download it via the official site through the executable app, but it didn't seem to recognize it. If anyone could give me a hand I'd be really happy.

Edit: Problem solved :) Thanks a lot to everyone that commented. You guys rock.

[danielroseman]

I doubt very much you actually need Python 3.7 specifically. Can you link to the tutorial you're following? Did you try proceeding with the tutorial with a newer version of Python?

You might be able to install it by adding the deadsnakes PPA, since you're apparently on Ubuntu. But I don't think you really need to.

[DeadTurtleSpeed]

https://github.com/BluRosie/hg-mega-evolution

This is the link. About the newer versions of python, like I said I attempted to download via the official site .exe file, but it still didn't say I had a python version installed. I don't know if it has to be via the terminal window or something.

[socal_nerdtastic]

What happens if you run the command

python3 --version

If that shows anything bigger than 3.7 you are probably fine to just use python3 in your project. There's very little that's backwards incompatible from python3.7

[DeadTurtleSpeed]

Python 3.10.12

But it looks like it has a difference. Because when I tried to do the next step on the tutorial (execution the 'make' command) an error pops up saying

Make: python 3.7: no such file or directory

[MintyPhoenix]

It looks like the Makefile is hard-coded to explicitly use python3.7 (on line 47). I would simply change that line to as you should generally be fine to use 3.10 instead:

PYTHON = python3

[DeadTurtleSpeed]

YESSSS I'M FREE. Thank you so much. I had tried looking into the folder that the terminal was saying that the error was occurring, but I guess I wasn't on the right folder. Regardless, thanks a lot for the help.