Install python3-venv module on linux mint

For python 3.6 I found out it was a locale issue, running this:

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Seems to solve the issue.

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  1. Update all packages
sudo apt-get update
  1. Install virtual environment 3
apt-get install python3-venv
apt install virtualenv
  1. Check that it has been installed
virtualenv --version

Note: that this is for ubuntu 20 or variants


Try running this command:

sudo apt-get install python3.4-venv

Then use this:

python3 -m venv test

the package name is python3.4-venv and not python3-venv.


I use python 3.6 , and so the following did the trick for me: $ sudo apt-get install python3.6-venv

(the problem was that apt-get install python3-venv would virtualenv for 3.5)