In the interest of not getting an XY problem: the goal is to create a virtual environment on synology dsm, so no apt-get, where pip is installed manually. I am trying to create a virtual environment, in above environment (synology dsm package python 3.8 with pip installed manually). However this gives the following error: $ python3 -m venv new_venv Error: Command '['/volume1/docker/builder/new_venv/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1. In the chain of finding that error I discovered that venv is working "just fine": $ python3 -m venv --without-pip new_venv Works as expected. Also pip itself works as expected. However I had to install pip manually. This also has as consequence that the synology dsm version of python does not have the module ensurepip.. # python3 -c "import ensurepip; print(ensurepip.__file__);" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ensurepip' This gives the problem: how does one manually install ensurepip, and/or make virtual env install pip without relying on ensurepip? Continue reading...
