Comment 13 for bug 1518023

You can probably use the update-alternatives system to set the system
python version to default to python 3.5. Otherwise it might be easier to
use user level tools such as virtualenv and pyenv to have multiple python
versions installed.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:05 AM John Hagen <email address hidden> wrote:

> For users that want to use Python 3.5, now that this has been changed,
> what is the supported way to install pip for Python 3.5?
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> Title:
> pip3 installs under python3.5
>
> Status in python-pip package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in python-pip source package in Wily:
> Fix Released
> Status in python-pip source package in Xenial:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> On a freshly installed and updated xubuntu 15.10, /usr/bin/python3
> links to /usr/bin/python3.4
>
> However, pip3 (from repository) installs packages under python3.5
>
> Fix: Either change the symlink (it may break some pre-python 3.5 code
> in the distro though) or the first line of pip.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
> Package: python3 3.4.3-4ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
> Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: XFCE
> Date: Thu Nov 19 15:36:29 2015
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-19 (0 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64
> (20151021)
> SourcePackage: python3-defaults
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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