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python3.8-venv not working with python3.8 -m venv env – Debian

I want to create a venv having python3.8 as python3
On Ubuntu 18.04
I did:

> sudo apt install python3.8 python3.8-venv

Now, when I try:

> python3.8 -m venv env

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/pushp/vizio-backend/env/bin/python3.8', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']

My application depends on python3.8. What am I missing here?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Resolved, what I did? :

    apt install python3.8 python3.8-venv python3-venv

    Dont know how but installing both the venv packages python3.8-venv python3-venv resolved it from me. Now when I do:

    python3.8 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python3 --version
> Python 3.8.0

  2. 0

    first:
    sudo pip3 install virtualenv
    then cd to the directory where you want your virtual environment to be:
    virtualenv "name of env" for ex: sudo virtualenv myProject-env
    then to activate:
    sudo source myProject-env/bin/activate
    to make sure that it is work:
    sudo which python

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  3. 0

    Referring this document from digitalOcean i got the same error but here in this linein this image change python3.6 to python3.8 then it will work fine.
    change python3.6 -m venv my_env to python3.8 -m venv my_env

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  4. 0

    Installing python3-distutils also works around the problem.

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  5. 0

    You might miss the virtual environment installation in your machine.

    You can install virtualenv using the following command,

    sudo apt-get install python3.8-venv python3-venv

    or

    python3 -m pip install virtualenv
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