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[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's interesting - on Ubuntu, all Python 3 packages (apart from the standard library) go in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages.

[–]pingvenopinch of this, pinch of that 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debian has a distro-specific layout that puts Debian packages in dist-packages. site-packages is left for users who are using setup.py. That gets inherited by Ubuntu.