[ubuntu-studio-users] Next Gimp issue - no python

[Ross Mohn]

Here are the steps I used:

 1. Check current system python version is 2.x
         sudo python --version
 2. Execute this command to switch to python3
         sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python
    /usr/bin/python3 1
 3. Verify system python version is now 3.x
         sudo python --version

based on steps I found in this post:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/410579/change-the-python3-default-version-in-ubuntu

-Ross


On 5/11/20 12:10 PM, BabsKy wrote:
> I'm surprised that python (for Gimp) isn't installed by default on 
> Linux, that's what's caused this issue before.
> I'll try anything to get it working, python plays a large part of my 
> Gimp workflow.
> Sorry to ask but how would I manually set python3 as the default?
>
> On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 16:54, Ross Mohn <rpmohn at waxandwane.org 
> <mailto:rpmohn at waxandwane.org>> wrote:
>
>     Can you try 'python3'? On a side note, I was surprised that
>     python3 was note the default in the upgrade. I had manually set
>     python3 as the default in my 19.10 and that was switched back to
>     python 2.x when I upgraded.
>
>     -Ross
>
>
>     On 5/11/20 7:38 AM, BabsKy wrote:
>>     So I did a clean install and Gimp now loads and works mostly OK.
>>     The issue now is it can't find python.
>>     I know this has been an issue with Gimp on Linux previously and
>>     it could be solved by 'sudo apt install gimp-python', but this
>>     doesn't work.
>>
>>     Output from terminal '/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or
>>     directory'
>>     I can see there's no env in bin.
>>     Does anyone know how to fix this please?
>>     I have searched online but the solutions aren't relevant to the
>>     current Gimp version/Linux.
>>
>>
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