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Gomenburu
Gomenburu

Reputation: 83

apt-get install python3-venv is not working

I am using a chromebook, using Debian. I need to run the terminal command python -m venv env, but when I use it, I get the errors

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/jacob/env/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']

so I run apt-get install python3-venv

but get the errors

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

Can anyone help with this?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 32141

Answers (7)

Nickolay Mazaev
Nickolay Mazaev

Reputation: 11

If someone is facing with this issue, just run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install python3.10-venv

Where python3.10-venv stands for python3.10 in this example

Upvotes: -2

Jalil Nourmohammadi Khiarak
Jalil Nourmohammadi Khiarak

Reputation: 808

You need to install a specific version.

I used this and solved my problem for python3.10:

 $ sudo apt-get install python3.10-venv

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

Krunal Akbari
Krunal Akbari

Reputation: 374

It is:

sudo apt-get install python3-venv

Upvotes: 4

Paula Bremenkamp
Paula Bremenkamp

Reputation: 65

It looks like a permission issue.

Try:

sudo apt-get install python3-venv

Upvotes: 1

Alchimie
Alchimie

Reputation: 426

Just do:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend

and try again

Upvotes: -1

udoyhasan
udoyhasan

Reputation: 2096

To install any package using apt you must be a root user to install and remove any package. Once the installation is done then any user can use that package if you have allowed them to access it (By default whenever root install a package other users gets permission to run it)

So to solve this problem try:

sudo apt-get install python3-venv

or

sudo su
apt-get install python3-venv

By using the sudo su you become the root user. So when you are a root user you don't have to append the sudo before your command.

Upvotes: 1

AKX
AKX

Reputation: 168873

As it says,

  • "You may need to use sudo with that command."
  • "are you root?"

Do sudo apt-get install python3-venv to run the apt-get command as root.

After that, you should not need to run other commands as root (or using sudo) unless there are some system-level library dependencies for your Python dependencies. (You shouldn't need to apt-get install any other python3 packages.)

Upvotes: 3

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