[Python-ideas] venv *is* provided in the standard Python install on Debian/Ubuntu

[Stephan Houben]

2017-11-13 3:32 GMT+01:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

>
> So technically it's ensurepip that's broken by default, but that
> translates to venv also being broken by default.
>
> I haven't worked out what the actual steps needed to fix it are
>


On Debian, ensurepip  is in the python3.5-venv package.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/python3.5-venv/filelist

Unfortunately there isn't (AFAIK) a meta-package which just says
"stop fooling around and just give me everything from the python.org
distribution, d*mmit."

Stephan
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