> I believe that Debian based systems link to some version of Python 2. Since Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it's a matter of installing the matching package:

> I believe that Debian based systems link to some version of Python 2. Since Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it's a matter of installing the matching package: python-is-python2 [1] for having /usr/bin/python link to Python 2.7, python-is-python3 [2] for having /usr/bin/python link to Python 3.x or none of them to avoid having /usr/bin/python at all. The latter one will still result in a working system, as all Python scripts shipped by Debian/Ubuntu nowadays explicitly specify /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3. [1]: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python-is-python2 https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python-is-python2 [2]: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python-is-python3 https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python-is-python3