> Can you run the latest Python 3.8 on your old extended-support Ubuntu Server 14.4 that you can't upgrade because reasons, on pyenv+virtualenv? Definitely. If

> Can you run the latest Python 3.8 on your old extended-support Ubuntu Server 14.4 that you can't upgrade because reasons, on pyenv+virtualenv? Definitely. If Python 3.8 isn't available from the package repository for ubuntu 14.04 you'll need to install it some other way -- either from source or from a binary package someone else compiled -- after which you can simply python3.8 -m venv venv to create a python 3.8 venv. This also works the other way around. e.g. if you want to install an old python version on a recent system. Of course anaconda provides python binaries itself which is mighty convenient but it's not like it's the only way to tackle the problem.