[Bug 2065422] Re: Misleading error creating python virtual environment, says need to install python3.11-venv

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu
better.

I was unable to reproduce this issue. I get the same message, but the
suggestion is `apt install python3.12-venv`. That's more expected, since
as you mentioned Python 3.11 was removed before release of 24.04
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.11/+publishinghistory)

The python3 binary is a symlink to the actual python version handled by python3-defaults, so I've taken the liberty of moving this bug report there. It would be interesting to see which package version you are running. My system lists
$ dpkg -S `command -v python3`
python3-minimal: /usr/bin/python3
$ apt policy python3-minimal
python3-minimal:
  Installed: 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.12.3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

And or run `apport-collect 2065422` which will add additional debug
information to the bug report. I'm curious whether this is a fresh
install or upgrade from an older Ubuntu release.

** Package changed: python3.11 (Ubuntu) => python3-defaults (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: python3-defaults (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Tags added: nobl

** Tags removed: nobl
** Tags added: noble

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Title:
  Misleading error creating python virtual environment, says need to
  install python3.11-venv

Status in python3-defaults package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  On Ubuntu 24.04 when I try to create a virtual environment I get this
  error:

  $ python3 -m venv pyenv
  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 install python3.11-venv

  You may need to use sudo with that command.  After installing the python3-venv
  package, recreate your virtual environment.

  I am running the python3 version included with the distro

  $ python3 --version
  Python 3.12.3

  The error suggests I install python3.11-venv however that package does
  not exist in 24.04 and what I need to install is python3-venv instead.

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