as it is testing perhaps there is a temporary glitch in the packages for python3.9, but it has been there for at least a week if not longer. oh, i do have python-is-python3 and there are no python2 programs anywhere on this system that i know of.
when i run the command: ===== $ python -m venv env setting up virtual environment /home/me/src/salsa/env 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/me/src/salsa/env/bin/python', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip'] ===== the package mentioned is installed: ===== $ dpkg -l | grep python3-venv ii python3-venv 3.9.0-4 amd64 pyvenv-3 binary for python3 (default python3 version) ===== any ideas? :) thanks! songbird