Greetings and thanks Harald. My replication of your steps resulted in a
traceback.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM Harald Köhler via Cygwin <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> the error message seems similar to thread "python3.12 ensurepip fails"
> from 2026-02-07 and later. The fix was a workaround in
> python{3.9,3.12}-virtualenv.
>
> You may check if python312-virtualenv-20.36.1-1 is installed. Then
> something like (from my machine):
>
> $ python3.12 -m ensurepip
> Looking in links: /tmp/tmprfwr8cps
> Requirement already satisfied: pip in
> /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages (26.0.1)
>
My result:
$ python3.12 -m ensurepip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 284, in _main
return _bootstrap(
^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 176, in _bootstrap
whl = wheel_path.read_bytes()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/pathlib.py", line 1019, in read_bytes
with self.open(mode='rb') as f:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/pathlib.py", line 1013, in open
return io.open(self, mode, buffering, encoding, errors, newline)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/lib/python3.12/ensurepip/_bundled/pip-25.0.1-py3-none-any.whl'
Danke, Harald. If you have any further ideas to share with me, please do so.
Sincerely,
Soren
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