>>> "MN" == Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 13/11/2021 09:22, Tim Cross wrote:
>> Uwe Brauer writes:
>> Given that Ubuntu 16.04 was end of life in April 2021, my
>> recommendation
>> would be to upgrade to ubuntu 21.04.

> I would not recommend a release with end of support in January 2022 to
> a person who is trying to avoid upgrading despite 18.04 and 20.04 long
> time support releases are available.

I think 20.04 is the best choice for me

> From mails to this list my impression is that 5-years old OS generates
> enough compatibility problems to seriously consider newer LTS version.

> Support of python-2.7 and early 3.x version has been seized as well.

>>> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 25, in <module>
>>> from six import text_type, binary_type, integer_types
>>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'six'
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That issue I could solve meanwhile but only to receive another error
ipython3 from my Ubuntu distribution but that corresponds to python 3.5
not 3.6 hm, ☹️ 

I think I rather upgrade Ubuntu or downgrade Matlab to make it work
again with python3.5