I was really struggling with the installation of Python 3.8 and pip on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. I tried several methods, but I kept running into the issue with the platform.linux_distribution error, and none of the solutions seemed to work. I tried switching Python versions and adjusting paths, but it only made things worse.

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