Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> writes: > Why are there both /usr/lib/python3 and /usr/lib/python3.8 on my > x[ubuntu] system?
While it's more of an Ubuntu (or Debian) question better asked in some relevant Linux forum, in the end it's because some package managers decided to do that. You can use commands like these to see which packages put stuff in which directory: dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3.8 dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3 On my Debian system the corresponding output looks like this: $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3.7 python3.7, libpython3.7-minimal:amd64, python3-tk:amd64, libpython3.7-dev:amd64, libpython3.7-stdlib:amd64, libpython3.7:amd64, python3-distutils, python3-lib2to3: /usr/lib/python3.7 $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python3 python3-scipy, python3-opengl, python3-statsmodels, iotop, python3-reportlab-accel:amd64, python3-magic, python3-pkg-resources, python3-kiwisolver, python3.7, python3-pandas-lib, python3-kerberos, python3-lz4, python3-renderpm:amd64, python3-numexpr, python3-cffi-backend, python3-crypto, python3-tables, python3-rencode, python3-gi, python3-dbus, devscripts, python3-gpg, python3-pyasn1, python3-py, python3-eyed3, pdfarranger, python3-pip, python3-virtualenv, xpra, python3-pandas, python3-pil:amd64, python3-requests, python3-urllib3, python3-psutil, python3-paramiko, python3-netifaces, python3-patsy, python3-gssapi, python3-sklearn, python3-cycler, python3-sip, python3-cairo:amd64, python3-six, python3-chardet, python3-nose, python3-debian, python3-wheel, python3-attr, python3-soupsieve, python3-bcrypt, python3-bs4, python3-sklearn-lib, python3-scour, python3-setuptools, python3-entrypoints, python3-gi-cairo, python3-cups, python3-keyrings.alt, python3-pluggy, python3-tz, python3-ifaddr, python3-joblib, python3-cvxopt, python3-secretstorage, python3-reportlab, python3-more-itertools, python3-keyring, python3-asn1crypto, python3-html5lib, python3-dns, python3-decorator, python3-dateutil, meson, python3-pexpect, python3-idna, python3-seaborn, lsb-release, python3-numpy, python3-brotli, python3-tables-lib, python3-lxml:amd64, python3-pytest, python3-simplejson, python3-nacl, python3-zeroconf, python3-xdg, python3-libvoikko, python3-gst-1.0, python3-pypdf2, python3-evdev, python3-matplotlib, python3-statsmodels-lib, python3-cryptography, python3-certifi, python3-atomicwrites, python3-pyparsing, python3-ptyprocess, python3-webencodings, piper, python3-uno, python3-apt, python3-setproctitle:amd64, hplip: /usr/lib/python3 So I'd say as a rule stuff relevant to the specific version of python goes in the specific version directory (i.e. /usr/lib/python3.8 in your case) and python software packages in general go in /usr/lib/python3. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
