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current get_pip requires distutils.util - ubuntu18.04

See original GitHub issue

can the install of this not be done in the script?

/usr/bin/python3.6 get-pip.py --upgrade --force-reinstall
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "get-pip.py", line 21492, in <module>
    main()
  File "get-pip.py", line 197, in main
    bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir)
  File "get-pip.py", line 82, in bootstrap
    import pip._internal
  File "/tmp/tmp2eupwih9/pip.zip/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmp2eupwih9/pip.zip/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmp2eupwih9/pip.zip/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmp2eupwih9/pip.zip/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 14, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.util'

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antoineFraucommented, Oct 2, 2019

Hello, I have the same issue, trying to use get-pip.py with python3.6 and having the same error :

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.util'

So I try to run the command :

sudo apt install python3-distutils

But that’s telling me that will install python3.7

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install python3-distutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libpython3-stdlib libpython3.7-minimal libpython3.7-stdlib python3 python3-lib2to3 python3-minimal python3.7 python3.7-minimal
Suggested packages:
  python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python3.7-venv python3.7-doc binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpython3-stdlib libpython3.7-minimal libpython3.7-stdlib python3 python3-distutils python3-lib2to3 python3-minimal python3.7 python3.7-minimal
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4377 kB of archives.
After this operation, 22.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C

So how does it works ? Does I need to install python3.7 to install pip for python3.6 ?

Thanks.

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pradyunsgcommented, Jun 20, 2019

Thanks for filing this!

As you noticed, Ubuntu ships their Python with a different structure, omitting parts of the standard library that pip depends on.

The best course of action here is to voice this concern and provide feedback to Ubuntu about this.

Oh, and apt install python-distutils. 😉

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