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Comment by dschep | Hacker News Reader

AFAIK -mvenv is still kaput in Ubuntu. I just this instead:

    sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python3
    virtualenv -p/usr/bin/python3 <venv>

Yes, it'd be way cooler if -mvenv wasn't crippled in Ubuntu, but this still works fine.

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Yea I was doing this until I also ran into a horrible mess later on due to the underlying issue that resulted in a catch 22 (something like pip is broken because venv is broken because pip is broken...). Unfortunately I didn't see [this tweet](https://twitter.com/danilobellini/status/461653494295179264) at that time, or things might have turned out differently

I know this is a bit of a dirty trick, but so far it has worked without problems for me at least:

The issue seems to rise from a missing ensurepip module. I fixed this by just downloading the Python 3.4 sources, unpacking them and copying the unpacked lib/ensurepip/ to /usr/lib/python3.4/ after which python3 -m venv seems to work fine.

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