Cannot properly create a virtual enviroment in Python 3.12

Question

I use the command line

python3 -m venv .venv 

and a new .venv module is created but an error appears:

Error: Command '['/home/achu/Documentos/portfolio2023/.venv/bin/python3', '-m', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1

the bin directory doesn't contain the activate file.

I've tried

$ apt install python3.12-dev python3.12-venv

Answer 1

This worked for me:

sudo apt install python3.12-venv

and then

python3.12 -m venv new_venv

Answer 2

Check if pip installed. Check if you using python3.12, and not other versions of python3.

curl -sSL https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3.12 get-pip.py