Installation issue with python3-apt in virtualenv and possible solution

[bma-vandijk]

Hi,

I recently installed the localenv flavour and am using Ubuntu 2020.182. It was the default installation without adding any additional packages. However, when I tried to add other software I quickly ran into this error on a Python dependency that seemed to be missing in the virtual environment.

TASK [lamachine-core : Installing aptitude (APT)] ******************************
�[1;35m[WARNING]: Updating cache and auto-installing missing dependency: python3-apt�[0m
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�[0;31m "changed": false�[0m
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�[0;31mCould not import python modules: apt, apt_pkg. Please install python3-apt package.�[0m

I think I solved this problem for now with the solution at the bottom of this page ansible/ansible#14468 and I installed python3-apt in the site-packages folder in the virtual environment manually. I was able to update LaMachine and install the Alpino package afterwards without problems.

I just wanted to let you and other users know how to potentially solve this issue. I love the LaMachine distribution so far by the way, thank you for putting all of this together!

the log file:
lamachine-lama-20210107_091225.log

[proycon]

Thanks for the report! I hadn't seen this problem pop up before but I can indeed reproduce it now. I wonder if the latest ansible version triggered this. I'm working on a fix.