Hi Kostis (2021.01.21_05:52:57_-0800)
I think there are two issues to solve here:
1: Tighten the dependency on python3-distutils, to avoid this happening.
2: The thing that prints out the instructions to install python3-venv
could be more intelligent about when it prints the message. We could
probe for the installation of the package, e.g. probe for the
existence of /usr/lib/python3.X/ensurepip/__main__.py or try to
import it.
Otherwise we print a message that is more confusing than helpful:
> For instance in "sid":
>
> $ python3.8 -m venv .venv
> The virtual environment was not created successfully because
> ensurepip is not
> available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
> package using the following command.
>
> apt-get install python3-venv
>
> You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the
> python3-venv
> package, recreate your virtual environment.
>
> Failing command: ['/home/user/.venv/bin/python3.8', '-Im',
> 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']
>
> It's only when you try the failing command that you get the root cause:
>
> $ /home/user/.venv/bin/python3.8 -Im ensurepip --upgrade --default-pip
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 6, in <module>
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 207, in run_module
> return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 97, in _run_module_code
> _run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals,
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
> exec(code, run_globals)
> File "/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__main__.py",
> line 23, in <module>
> File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
> File
> "/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/main.py",
> line 10, in <module>
> File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
> File
> "/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py",
> line 9, in <module>
> File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
> File
> "/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py",
> line 7, in <module>
> File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
> File
> "/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py",
> line 19, in <module>
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.util'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
> return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
> exec(code, run_globals)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
> sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 265, in _main
> return _bootstrap(
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 183, in _bootstrap
> return _run_pip(args + _PROJECTS, additional_paths)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 61, in _run_pip
> return subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-c", code],
> check=True).returncode
> File "/usr/lib/python3.8/when trying the", in run
> raise the real cause CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
> subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command
> '['/home/user/.venv/bin/python3.8', '-c', '\nimport runpy\nimport
> sys\nsys.path =
> [\'/tmp/tmpybc1t180/setuptools-44.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl\',
> \'/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl\',
> \'/tmp/tmpybc1t180/pkg_resources-0.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl\'] +
> sys.path\nsys.argv[1:] = [\'install\', \'--no-cache-dir\',
> \'--no-index\', \'--find-links\', \'/tmp/tmpybc1t180\', \'--upgrade\',
> \'setuptools\', \'pip\', \'pkg_resources\']\nrunpy.run_module("pip",
> run_name="__main__", alter_sys=True)\n']' returned non-zero exit
> status 1.
SR
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