# Problem installing prerequisites for building Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-prerequisites-for-building-julia/105128>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** build\
**Created:** [October 18, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-prerequisites-for-building-julia/105128 "2023-10-18T14:41:04Z")\
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Perhaps a symlink for python3 in /usr/bin? I think that is how the build tools call it. Or perhaps in your apt install line, just change `python` to `python3`?

Raspberry Pi does a lot of custom things … but then again so do most distros. On WSL2 (specifically, the Ubuntu one), calling `python3` gives you a symlink to `/usr/bin/python3.10`

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