diff --git a/mx-linux/mx-19.3.sh b/mx-linux/mx-19.3.sh
index 667ec16..c000e45 100644
--- a/mx-linux/mx-19.3.sh
+++ b/mx-linux/mx-19.3.sh
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ apt-get update $1
 apt-get upgrade $1
 #<-- install python 3.9
 apt-get install $1 build-essential liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev curl libbz2-dev python-tk python3-tk tk-dev
-wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.6/Python-3.9.6.tgz
-tar -xf Python-3.9.6.tgz
-cd Python-3.9.6
-./configure --enable-optimizations
+wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.8/Python-3.9.8.tgz
+tar -xf Python-3.9.8.tgz
+cd Python-3.9.8
+./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-ensurepip=yes --enable-optimizations 
 make -j 2
 make install
 #-->