Synaptic Package Manager error [duplicate]

In all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:

apt download python3-minimal
sudo apt install --reinstall ./python3-minimal_*.deb
sudo apt install -f

If that doesn't work a simple reboot will sometimes solve this problem.


This solved my same/similar issue:

cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
ls -la /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
sudo cp apt_pkg.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so apt_pkg.so

Source: Linux Question