/usr/bin/env: `python`: No such file or directory

[wolf99]

From the README:

All you need to run ssh-ident is a standard installation of python >= 2.6, python > 3 is supported.

Assuming the comma implies "or" in the above.

I have a standard install of Python 3 in Ubuntu on WSL and is on the PATH (Python 2 is not_installed).

~❯ which python3
/usr/bin/python3

~❯ ~/bin/ssh
/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory

Can I make ssh-ident work as expected without directory shenanigans?

PS: Looks like the following runs... but is a bit more overhead in remembering to do it:

~❯ python3 ~/bin/ssh
Loading keys:
#... etc

[wolf99]

The work-around proposed in the following answer works.

But this seems hacky at best.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1171171/333103.

[migs008]

Hi,

I managed to get this working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on WSL1. Works like a charm.

sudo apt-get install python-is-python3

I got it from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41986507/unable-to-set-default-python-version-to-python3-in-ubuntu

[SuperSandro2000]

Just change the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env python3 instead of wracking entire python 2.

[tlvu]

We are at the end of 2025, should the script default to python3 now so to avoid this problem out of the box? python2 is not installed by default anymore in Ubuntu 24.04 !

[maddes-b]

Have a look at https://github.com/ssh-ident/ssh-ident1