sshuttle fails on loading modules on UbuntuMATE 18.04

[Mario Splivalo]

sshuttle does not work on UbuntuMATE 18.04.

This is from a fresh UbuntuMATE install:

mario@sshuttletest ~> sshuttle -r <email address hidden> 192.168.10.0/16
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sshuttle.server", line 19, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'shutil'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "assembler.py", line 24, in <module>
  File "sshuttle.server", line 21, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'distutils'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
    from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from apport.report import Report
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 15, in <module>
    import xml.dom, xml.dom.minidom
ImportError: No module named 'xml'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sshuttle.server", line 19, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'shutil'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "assembler.py", line 24, in <module>
  File "sshuttle.server", line 21, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'distutils'
client: fatal: server died with error code 1
mario@sshuttletest ~>

On UbuntuMATE 18.10 sshuttle works as expected.

[Mario Splivalo (mariosplivalo)]

@Norbert, hi! This actually isn't a sshuttle bug, but a UbuntuMATE bug - shuttle in Ubuntu/Kubuntu works normally - something that UbuntuMATE is bringing up to the table breaks python dependencies and sshuttle doesn't work.