No module named 'distutils.util'

Question

I'm working on ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS and While creating a virtual environment in python 3.8 I'm getting No module named 'distutils.util'

I'm using the repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa I have tried the following but didn't work

sudo apt install python3-distutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-distutils

I have tried the solution from this link

sudo apt install python3.8-distutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3.8-distutils
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.8-distutils'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python3.8-distutils'

Answer 1

Make sure to replace 3.10 which is version of python with appropriate version.

Installing Python3.10

Update system
    $ sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get full-upgrade -y

Helps to add ppa repositories
    $ sudo apt install software-properties-common -y

Adding deadsnake repository
    $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

Installing python
    $ sudo apt-get install python3.10
    $ sudo apt-get install python3.10-dev
    $ sudo apt-get install python3.10-tk

Add Python 3.8 & Python 3.10 to update-alternatives
    $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.8 1
    $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.10 2

Update Python 3 for point to Python 3.10
    $ sudo update-alternatives --config python3

Installing distutils.util

$ sudo apt-get install python3.10-distutils

Still using python3.10 -m pip some_command might result in error to fix it use

$ curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.10