I was wanting to upgrade my python version (to 3.10 in this case) so after installing python3.10 I proceeded to try adding some modules I use e.g. opencv , which ran into:
jeremy@jeremy-Blade:~$ python3.10 -m pip install opencv-python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 16, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main # isort:skip # noqa
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 10, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 9, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 7, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 19, in <module>
from distutils.util import strtobool
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.util'
jeremy@jeremy-Blade:~$ sudo apt-get install python3-distutils
[sudo] password for jeremy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3-distutils is already the newest version (3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04).
...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Since distutils already seems to be installed , I can't grok how to proceed.
It looks like distutils has versioning , so after
jeremy@jeremy-Blade:~$ sudo apt-get install python3.10-distutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
...
Setting up python3.10-lib2to3 (3.10.0-1+focal1) ...
Setting up python3.10-distutils (3.10.0-1+focal1) ...
jeremy@jeremy-Blade:~$ python3.10 -m pip install opencv-python
seems to be able to proceed.