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Insllation of python is broken

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the failure with the documented amazonlinux:2023 Docker command sequence, then inspect how pkgm installs Python 3.11 and its shared libraries. The fix is complete when the installed Python runs python --version successfully in that container; the issue does not name a source file or test to start from.

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Description

Getting the following error in amazon linux 2023 when trying to install and use python

python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.11.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Simulation steps

  • Run command docker run -it amazonlinux:2023 /bin/bash
  • Inside the container run the following commands
## Install installer depndencies
dnf install -y tar gzip which

## Install pkgx
curl --retry 3 -fsSL https://pkgx.sh | bash

## Install python
pkgm install python@3.11

## Try to make python print its version (this will fail with the above error)
python --version

Proposal

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
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Forks
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