speedtest-cli stopped working today?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 4/12/21 2:34 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 18:17, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Turns out python3 *was* installed so I had to tell it to behave:
>>>
>>> sudo apt install python-is-python3
>>
>> Not heard of that before. I presume that means running the 'python'
>> command actually runs 'python3'?
> 
> New to me, too. I would recommend removing Python 2 again:
> 
> sudo apt purge python
> 
>> You need to instal setuptools. sudo apt install setuptools should do
>> it.
> 

People used to recommend not removing python2 because there were still 
system scripts using it. I don't know how relevant that is now.

jfb at Mint20:~$ which python
/usr/bin/python
jfb at Mint20:~$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3
jfb at Mint20:~$ python
Python 2.7.18 (default, Mar  8 2021, 13:02:45)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>
[1]+  Stopped                 python
jfb at Mint20:~$ python3
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>
[2]+  Stopped                 python3
jfb at Mint20:~$ apt-cache depends python2.7
python2.7
   Depends: python2.7-minimal
   Depends: libpython2.7-stdlib
   Depends: mime-support
   Conflicts: <python-profiler>
   Breaks: <python-virtualenv>
   Breaks: vim-athena
   Breaks: <vim-gnome>
   Breaks: vim-gtk
   Breaks: vim-nox
   Suggests: python2.7-doc
   Suggests: binutils
   Replaces: <python-profiler>
   Replaces: python2.7-minimal
jfb at Mint20:~$

On my up to date Mint20 machine it doesn't seem much depends on it anymore.

Regards,  Jim