How to fix “module ‘platform’ has no attribute ‘linux_distribution'” when installing new packages with Python3.8?

May 30, 2023 by Tarik

It looks like at least on my Ubuntu 16.04, pip is shared for all Python versions in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip.

This is what I did to get it working again:

You might want to install the python 3.5 version of pip again with sudo python3.5 -m easy_install pip.