I am using a chromebook, using Debian. I need to run the terminal command python -m venv env, but when I use it, I get the errors The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv package using the following command. apt-get install python3-venv You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv package, recreate your virtual environment. Failing command: ['/home/jacob/env/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip'] so I run apt-get install python3-venv but get the errors E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root? Can anyone help with this? Continue reading...