Linux Python

 To install a custom version of python, download and compile from here:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/

MuEditor - requires python < 3.9 + install libsqlite3-dev before compiling 

python3.8 -m venv mu-editor              (create a virtual env in the mu-editor folder)
cd mu-edit/bin
source activate                                       (activates in console the virtual env)

pip install mu-editor

To install python apps you use pip

Pip aplications: https://pypi.org/project/mu-editor/

Make shorutcuts for python apps while in virtual env

pip install shortcut
shortcut mu-editor