# My ubuntu 22 is not changing to python3.8

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/my-ubuntu-22-is-not-changing-to-python3-8/56289>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [November 23, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/my-ubuntu-22-is-not-changing-to-python3-8/56289 "2022-11-23T03:49:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![tsheringtashi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tsheringtashi/32/21529_2.png) [@tsheringtashi](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tsheringtashi)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/my-ubuntu-22-is-not-changing-to-python3-8/56289/1 "2022-11-23T03:49:54Z")

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my OS is ubuntu version 22. I have created a virtual environment in the terminal and pip install rasa. It was installed, however rasa was not found when I initialized rasa. you may find the comment below while I entered rasa init:

“rasa: command not found”

while I further trouble shoot the issue, I found that my python version is 3.10 even after install python3.8. How do I change to python3.8 in the virtual environment?

Is there a command where I can use the following:

pip install rasa-python3.8

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**Author:** ![tsheringtashi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tsheringtashi/32/21529_2.png) [@tsheringtashi](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tsheringtashi)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/my-ubuntu-22-is-not-changing-to-python3-8/56289/2 "2022-11-24T06:46:43Z")

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After much finding online for the solution, I couldn’t resolve after the following steps:

1. install conda from [Here](https://www.anaconda.com/products/distribution)
2. open up conda prompt
3. create a folder (mkdir rasafolder) From here you can type the script as below:
4. cd rasafolder
5. conda install ujson
6. conda install tensorflow 7 pip install rasa

Error: exception: ‘’‘socket.timeout: the read operation timed out During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: status = run\_func(\*args)’‘’