Usr/bin/env python: no such file or directory

I update the kernel, after that the Ubuntu doesn't work well, PS: I try to exec "meld" command, it will report that "/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory", then I exec "sudo apt-get install python" and get the result "python is already the newest version.", what should I do for it.

I'm not good at linux, can you tell me how to revert my linux to the last right status, or reinstall the python normally.

asked Sep 7, 2010 at 2:06

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Problem scenario:

/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

Possible Solution #1

• If Python 3 is not installed, install it: apt-get install python3

Possible Solution #2

• If Python 3 has been installed, run these commands: whereis python3

• Then we create a symlink to it: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

EDIT: hi everyone, I noticed that @mchid posted a better solution below my answer: sudo apt install python-is-python3.

answered May 5, 2020 at 7:43

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On Ubuntu 20.04 and newer, there is a package to fix this problem. Run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python-is-python3

Run apt-cache show python-is-python3 for more info.

answered Nov 29, 2020 at 12:16

mchidmchid

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Having been momentarily stumped by this error myself, I thought I'd post how I fixed my problem.

My problem was an error:

: No such file or directory

Which made little sense to me. My problem is that my editor had silently converted the script from Unix LF to Windows CR/LF line-termination. A rather unfortunate upshot of this is that "#!/usr/bin/env python" actually became "#!/usr/bin/env python\015" where \015 is the invisible CR character... /usr/bin/env was, then, unable to find a command "python\015" - hence the file-not-found error.

Converting the script to Unix line-ending convention solved my problem... but only after a few minutes' head-scratching.

answered Jan 4, 2012 at 23:32

aSteveaSteve

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May 2022: For anyone who just updated to Monterey 12.3 it appears the update replaces python with python3. Downloading python fixes the issues in Xcode and git command line. Be sure to read the two comments below.

answered Mar 29 at 22:03

NormanNorman

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@mchid's answer is the one you should go for it.

just FYI,

if you do this: $ python

it will say Command 'python' not found ...

But if you do this: $ python3, it should work.

So, just modify the shebang line

from !#/usr/bin/env python to !#/usr/bin/env python3, you're good to go.

(which is automatically done by doing sudo apt install python-is-python3)

answered Mar 7, 2021 at 3:36

starrietstarriet

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For people facing the same issue with MacOS and installed python3 with homebrew:

sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 /opt/homebrew/bin/python

answered May 23 at 15:45

DanielMDanielM

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This answer for android build system error For Python 3

If you get a "/usr/bin/env 'python' no such file or directory" error message, use one of the following solutions: If your Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS is a newly installed (vs. upgraded) Linux version:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

f using Git version 2.19 or greater, you can specify --partial-clone when performing repo init. This makes use of Git's partial clone capability to only download Git objects when needed, instead of downloading everything. Because using partial clones means that many operations must communicate with the server, use the following if you're a developer and you're using a network with low latency:

repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b master --partial-clone --clone-filter=blob:limit=10M

you can see document in Downloading the Source

answered Mar 19 at 12:54

Additional possible solution if the other suggestions from the mates are not working is to convert the .py scripts into UNIX format.

You can do so by installing dos2unix, before converting your scripts. You can do with something like this:

sudo apt install dos2unix

Once installed, you can convert your script accordingly:

dos2unix .py

You can read more here about dos2unix.

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Separately, do try to run your script locally and see if it's working, you will also need to take note to include the hashbang in your script.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

• Note that above is for python3, use python if necessary.

answered Jun 7 at 1:37

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