ImportError: No module named lsb_release

Question

When I run lsb_release -a , it shows an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
import lsb_release
ImportError: No module named lsb_release

I have change default python version Python2.7 to python2.6. Ubuntu 12.04

how to solve this problem?

Solution

Ubuntu 14.04 has the lsb_release.py file installed for Python 2.7 as well and lsb_release seems to work under python2.7 as well. You can try this by doing:

python2.7 /usr/bin/lsb_release

If that works, make a backup of the file /usr/bin/lsb_release and change the first line to read:

#! /usr/bin/python2.7

(you can experiment with the -Es options, I would leave them out intially).

Once you can run apt-get again, reinstall python3 and it dependencies. You can determine the direct dependencies by using apt-cache depends python3 and use apt-rdepends or reverse-depends (both have to be installed) to get dependencies recursively.

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Comments

[muru]

And how did you make that change?

[user3752051]

goto this link web.mit.edu/6.00/www/handouts/pybuntu.html here is steps how to change default python version . i am using ubuntu 12.04

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Possibly you run into this (pretty old) bug.

[user3752051]

i need same solution for python2.6 i am using Ubuntu 12.04

[TamaMcGlinn]

This difference occurs between python 3.5 and python 3.6. You can confirm that by doing just python3.5 -c 'import lsb_release' and similar for python3.6