[07:10] <lordievader> Good morning
[21:50] <pgnd> i'm working on upgrading servers to python 3.8.  on an ubu 18.04LTS server, I've installed the pkg, and updated alternative ... but  on exec, 'apt *' or 'apt-get *' complains about "no module named 'apt_pkg'"
[21:51] <pgnd> can't seem to (re)install python3-apt in my current state; co catch 22?
[21:51] <pgnd> here's what I see: https://pastebin.com/TJArWK47
[21:51] <pgnd> how do I get myself out of this mini-mess?
[21:54] <pgnd> and, python-apt reports "Requirement already satisfied: python-apt in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages" ...