No module named 'distutils.cmd' with Python3.9 in Ubuntu 22.04

Question

I've created a virtual environment of Python3.9 with Pycharm but when I try to install the packages in requirements, I get this error:

Error: Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/snap/pycharm-professional/401/plugins/python/helpers/packaging_tool.py", line 85, in run_pip
    runpy.run_module(module_name, run_name='__main__', alter_sys=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 210, in run_module
    return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 97, in _run_module_code
    _run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 22, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip._internal.build_env import get_runnable_pip
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/build_env.py", line 19, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.spinners import open_spinner
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/spinners.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.logging import get_indentation
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/logging.py", line 29, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.misc import ensure_dir
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 41, in <module>
    from pip._internal.locations import get_major_minor_version
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/__init__.py", line 66, in <module>
    from . import _distutils
  File "/home/my_user/Documents/my_project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_internal/locations/_distutils.py", line 20, in <module>
    from distutils.cmd import Command as DistutilsCommand
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'

I tried installing sudo apt install python3.9-distutils but I get:

E: Unable to locate package python3.9-distutils
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.9-distutils'

Any idea?

Answer 1

Trying to solve the last issue, it solves everything. To do that, I ran:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update

to update apt with old versions of python and, particularly, of python3.9-dev and python3.9-venv. After that, I ran:

sudo apt install python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev

I created again the repository, and I could install the requirements.