Creating Virtual Environment with Python 3.11 Returns an Error

Question

I got an error when creating virtualenv with Python 3.11 interpreter.

I typed this in my terminal

python3.11 -m venv env

It returned this:

Error: Command '['/home/bambang/env/bin/python3.11', '-m', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

What's possibly missing?

Smukler

Answer 1

I tried to add --without-pip flag. It doesn't return an error so far

Smukler

To complete the story, one usually do want 'pip'. So, look at the next step for example here: https://mcmap.net/q/102684/-pip-is-not-working-for-python-3-10-on-ubuntu – Easternmost

I have fixed it, brother. I manually download pip afterwards, and install it. I have written full article to solve this my way, medium.com/@bambang.wirojoyo/… – Smukler

pip will be missing when you want to install dependencies later, so this is kind of a very temporary workaround. – Tourniquet

Answer 2

sudo apt install python3.11-venv

Spanjian

On ubuntu 24.04, this fails with E: Package 'python3.11-venv' has no installation candidate – Ladykiller

Aha, it works if I do this first: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa – Ladykiller

Answer 3

The best way to solve this is with "sudo".
I had multiple version of WSL ubuntu downloaded on my machine. I was having issues creating a virtual environment in Python 3.12 with python3.12 -m venv env even though I can creat a virtual environment in other ubuntu envrionemts.

The issue resolves it self if you do the following

sudo python3.11 -m venv env

This works for me so I hope it helps you guys

Penner