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Hugo Alberto Rivera Diaz • Edited

If you get the next error message while trying to create the virtualenv in Ubuntu:

Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 24, in
import distutils.spawn
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

Just run: sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

This happens because Ubuntu's built-in Python is broken.