[New-bugs-announce] [issue41683] Python3: Installation error on Ubunti-18

[Prasanth R]

New submission from Prasanth R <ragaprasanth at gmail.com>:

Got this error on Ubuntu-18 alone

```
	 _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE=python3-3.8.3/Python-3.8.3 _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM=linux-x86_64 PYTHONPATH=python3-3.8.3/Python-3.8.3/build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/sysconfigdata:./Lib _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME=_sysconfigdata__linux_x86_64-linux-gnu python3.8 -m ensurepip \
		$ensurepip --root=toolchain/ ; \
fi
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 188, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 286, in run
    with self._build_session(options) as session:
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 101, in _build_session
    session = PipSession(
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/download.py", line 559, in __init__
    self.headers["User-Agent"] = user_agent()
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/download.py", line 144, in user_agent
    zip(["name", "version", "id"], distro.linux_distribution()),
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/distro.py", line 122, in linux_distribution
    return _distro.linux_distribution(full_distribution_name)
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/distro.py", line 677, in linux_distribution
    self.version(),
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/distro.py", line 737, in version
    self.lsb_release_attr('release'),
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/distro.py", line 899, in lsb_release_attr
    return self._lsb_release_info.get(attribute, '')
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/distro.py", line 552, in __get__
    ret = obj.__dict__[self._fname] = self._f(obj)
  File "/tmp/tmp48him7rr/pip-19.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/distro.py", line 1012, in _lsb_release_info
    stdout = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=devnull)
  File "python3-3.8.3/Python-3.8.3/Lib/subprocess.py", line 411, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "python3-3.8.3/Python-3.8.3/Lib/subprocess.py", line 512, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '('lsb_release', '-a')' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Makefile:1189: recipe for target 'install' failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 'python3-3.8.3/Python-3.8.3'
```

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components: Build
messages: 376177
nosy: prasanth
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python3: Installation error on Ubunti-18
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.8

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