Cannot import name '_gi'

Question

I\'m trying to add a repository to ppa with the add-apt-repository commands but the _gi module from Python is not found.

I did this command

Answer 1

Thanks to a comment by Wilhelm, I found that the solution is:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-{36m,37m}-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

This worked for me with Python 3.7 on Ubuntu.