pyvenv not working because ensurepip is not available
I upgraded from ubuntu 14.04 to ubuntu 16.04 a few days ago. When I try to create a virtual env by using
pyvenv .venv
or
python3 -m venv .venv
There is an error:
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: ['/usr/bin/python3.5', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']
I tried running both
sudo apt-get install python3-venv
and
sudo apt-get install python3.5-venv
but it did not solve my problem.
Answer
It seems that it was a locale problem. Solved by executing:
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
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