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

Question

I had Python versions of 2.7 and 3.5. I wanted the install a newer version of Python which is python 3.8. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and I can not just uninstall Python 3.5 due

Answer 1

In my case, removing python-pip-whl package helped:

apt-get remove python-pip-whl

It removed also pip and virtualenv, so I had to install them again:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3
pip install virtualenv