Ubuntu 18.04: Anki does not start

[yusuf75]

Anki doesnt start.
I get this Error:

anki
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/anki", line 6, in <module>
    import aqt
  File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from anki import version as _version
  File "/usr/share/anki/anki/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
    from anki.storage import Collection
  File "/usr/share/anki/anki/storage.py", line 11, in <module>
    from anki.collection import _Collection
  File "/usr/share/anki/anki/collection.py", line 25, in <module>
    from anki.sound import stripSounds
  File "/usr/share/anki/anki/sound.py", line 87, in <module>
    from anki.mpv import MPV, MPVBase
  File "/usr/share/anki/anki/mpv.py", line 39, in <module>
    from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: anki 2.1.0+dfsg~b36-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 4 18:58:13 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-16 (110 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: anki
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1762593, so it is being marked as such. A fix seems to be in the works for 18.04, in the meantime you can manually install the python3-distutils package to work around this issue.