virtualbox – python -v and python3 -V gives different version in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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The default Python version for Ubuntu 22.04 is Python 3.10.6, and this is what the system uses by default.

$ stat /usr/bin/python3
  File: /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.10
  Size: 10              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: 10302h/66306d   Inode: 10486495    Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)

The symlink /usr/bin/python does not normally exist, so this must have been created when you installed Python 3.11.

So any application calling /usr/bin/python will use Python 3.11.

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