Got it! On Monday, September 21, 2020 at 5:42:28 PM UTC+2 Matthias Koeppe wrote:
> Try installing python3.8-distutils. > > this package does not exist, trying to sudo apt-get install python3.8-distutils replaces it by python3-distutils which is already installed. What worked for me (on ubuntu 18.04 I recall) is: sudo apt-get install python3.8-dev and now ./configure picks up the system Python: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG python3... checking whether any of sqlite libpng bzip2 xz libffi is installed as or will be installed as SPKG... no checking for python3 >= 3.7, < 3.9 with modules sqlite3, ctypes, math, hashlib, crypt, readline, socket, zlib, distutils.core... checking ... whether /usr/bin/python3.8 is good... yes checking for python3 >= 3.6, < 3.9 with modules sqlite3, ctypes, math, hashlib, crypt, readline, socket, zlib, distutils.core... /usr/bin/python3.8 configure: will use system package and not install SPKG python3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/2b1312fb-1a7a-4fbf-a733-314fdb500b92n%40googlegroups.com.
