[GitHub] [pulsar] candlerb opened a new issue #5369: "#!/usr/bin/env python" doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04 / python3

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candlerb opened a new issue #5369: "#!/usr/bin/env python" doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04 / python3
URL: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/5369
 
 
   **Describe the bug**
   
   Ubuntu 18.04 comes with python3 only by default, so scripts which try to start "python" don't work.
   
   **To Reproduce**
   
   On Ubuntu 18.04, try to start the sql worker:
   
   ```
   $ bin/pulsar sql-worker run
   /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
   ```
   
   Tracing shows that sql-worker runs `lib/presto/bin/launcher` which runs `lib/presto/bin/launcher.py` whose first line is `#!/usr/bin/env python`
   
   The underlying problem is: Ubuntu 18.04 comes with python3 only by default.  In the case of Ubuntu (and presumably Debian), "python" means python2, which is very shortly [end-of-life](https://pythonclock.org).
   
   Symlinking python3 to python is heavily discouraged, as it can badly break things which depend on python2.
   
   It's not clear whether sql worker is compatible with python3 or not, but a workaround is to patch the files:
   
   ```
   sed -i'' -e 's@^#!/usr/bin/env python$@#!/usr/bin/env python3@' $(grep -lR '^#!/usr/bin/env python$' .)
   ```
   
   **Expected behavior**
   sql worker should start
   
   **Desktop (please complete the following information):**
    - OS: Ubuntu 18.04
   

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