Hmm, I also am not able to reproduce this problem on other xenial systems.
Seems like the package lists were somehow broken.
I suppose xenial-updates was once activated and at some point was
deactivated again. That would definitely explain the error.
-> can be closed
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Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu
better.
I am not able to reproduce this issue, as I was able to install both
python3-pip and python-pip on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. Based on the error
message (and that you have python-pip already installed) it seems to be
some