Debian

So you upgraded your Python. “Now I can deploy my project,” you thought. You got all the packages in place, including Certbot for SSL. Ready to generate the certs, you typed sudo certbot -h. And then… pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘certbot==0.40.0’ distribution was not found and is required by the application or from acme.magic_typing import Union # pylint: […]

This is a common issue when you manually update your system’s Python version. Let’s understand the problem: When we install the python binding for apt (either python3-apt or python-apt), it places a shared object file within /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages. It might look like this: apt_pkg.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so Here, 310 is my python version, maybe your one will say 36m python-3.6 or maybe 38 python-3.8 Now, most of […]