No program named Python

[Chris Johns]

On 02/10/2018 09:08, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> It could be a system administration issue I don't know how to resolve yet but
> during recent Kick Starts, both Ubuntu abd msys2 have ended up with no program
> named python. There can be a python2.x or python3.x. On Ubuntu, I hacked and
> symlinked python2.x to python. This didn't work on msys2.
> 
> Given I have seen this issue on two different platforms, I wanted to report this
> and see if anyone had any insight.
> 

On Ubuntu I have:

 $ file /usr/bin/python
 /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to python2.7
 $ apt-file search /usr/bin/python | grep "/usr/bin/python$"
 python-minimal: /usr/bin/python

This looks like a packaging issue on Ubuntu.

On MSYS2 I do not know.

Chris