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On Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu, the distutils package is mostly missing. Only the package root and distutils.version is available. The remaining code has been moved to python3-distutils, which must be installed separately.

The following command should solve the problem in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

If you're using a specific python3 minor version, different from the distro python3 default, then you may need to install the corresponding minor version of the system distutils package. E.g. for Python 3.10:

sudo apt-get install python3.10-distutils

reference: Negative Python user experience on Debian/Ubuntu - distutils is stripped down and missing most code.

On Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu, the distutils package is mostly missing. Only the package root and distutils.version is available. The remaining code has been moved to python3-distutils, which must be installed separately.

The following command should solve the problem in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

reference: Negative Python user experience on Debian/Ubuntu - distutils is stripped down and missing most code.

On Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu, the distutils package is mostly missing. Only the package root and distutils.version is available. The remaining code has been moved to python3-distutils, which must be installed separately.

The following command should solve the problem in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

If you're using a specific python3 minor version, different from the distro python3 default, then you may need to install the corresponding minor version of the system distutils package. E.g. for Python 3.10:

sudo apt-get install python3.10-distutils

reference: Negative Python user experience on Debian/Ubuntu - distutils is stripped down and missing most code.

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I know this is an old questionOn Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu, but I just come across the same issue using Python 3distutils package is mostly missing.6 in Ubuntu, Only the package root and I am abledistutils.version is available. The remaining code has been moved to solve it using thepython3-distutils, which must be installed separately.

The following command (this worksshould solve the problem in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04):

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

reference: Negative Python user experience on Debian/Ubuntu - distutils is stripped down and missing most code.

I know this is an old question, but I just come across the same issue using Python 3.6 in Ubuntu, and I am able to solve it using the following command (this works in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04):

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

On Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu, the distutils package is mostly missing. Only the package root and distutils.version is available. The remaining code has been moved to python3-distutils, which must be installed separately.

The following command should solve the problem in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

reference: Negative Python user experience on Debian/Ubuntu - distutils is stripped down and missing most code.

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I know this is an old question, but I just come across the same issue using Python 3.6 in Ubuntu, and I am able to solve it using the following command (this works in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04):

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

I know this is an old question, but I just come across the same issue using Python 3.6 in Ubuntu, and I am able to solve it using the following command:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

I know this is an old question, but I just come across the same issue using Python 3.6 in Ubuntu, and I am able to solve it using the following command (this works in Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04):