Comment 77 for bug 1290847

virtual environments and distro packages solve entirely different problems
though. They aren’t two solutions to the same problem.

On June 17, 2015 at 12:11:28 PM, Matthias Klose (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> I don't think the installation by default would be a good idea. This is
> distro land, and I think we should promote using the distro packages.
> People wanting to install venv and pip know how to do this.
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> Title:
> pyvenv fails due to mising ensurepip module
>
> Status in python3-defaults package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in python3.4 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in python3.4 package in Debian:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed the following
>
> # fails
> python3.4 -m venv --clear python-venv
> Error: Command '['.../external/python-venv/bin/python3.4', '-Im', 'ensurepip',
> '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1
>
> # works, but no pip
> python3.4 -m venv --clear --without-pip python-venv
>
> Thank you
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