gomenburu here (again, sorry),
I am about to start the FreeCodeCamp Python Project – How to Build Tony Stark’s JARVIS with Python.
I am using a chromebook, using Debian. I need to run the terminal command python -m venv env, but when I use it, I get the errors
The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.
apt-get install python3-venv
You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.
Failing command: ['/home/jacob/env/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']
so I run apt-get install python3-venv
but get the errors E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
Can anyone help with this?
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Answers
As it says,
Do
sudo apt-get install python3-venvto run theapt-getcommand as root.After that, you should not need to run other commands as root (or using
sudo) unless there are some system-level library dependencies for your Python dependencies. (You shouldn’t need toapt-get installany otherpython3packages.)It looks like a permission issue.
Try:
It is:
To install any package using
aptyou must be a root user to install and remove any package. Once the installation is done then any user can use that package if you have allowed them to access it (By default whenever root install a package other users gets permission to run it)So to solve this problem try:
or
By using the
sudo suyou become the root user. So when you are a root user you don’t have to append thesudobefore your command.Just do:
and try again