> The python3-venv package is already installed on my system. If ensurepip > isn't installed by default on Debian, this error message should state > that and give the user instructions on how to install it.
This, and from digging through packages for mentions of "ensurepip", it appears that there *is* no package for it. Furthermore, it appears that the detection for "am I running in system python" is broken and that breaks trying to create a virtual environment: $ apt install python3-venv ... $ python3 -m venv venv 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. ... That should probably be a different bug, I suppose? Simon Heath

