Unable to install ipykernel in vscode for python3.12 (ipynb)

I’ve done a fair amount of code for statistics (mainly R), but I’m quite new to Python and modules etc.

I work with an Ubuntu 22.04, and I installed vscode and the latest version of Python (pyhton3.12). However, as the version python3.10 is used by the OS, I left it this one as my default version.

If I do:

$ python3 --versionPython 3.10.12

And to use the version 3.12, I have to explicitly say so.

The problem comes when I try to use a jupyter notebook in VS code.I tried to run with the kernel 3.12, and it told me that I needed to perform the installation of the Ipykernel.

/bin/python3.12 -m pip install ipykernel -U --user –force-reinstall

However, I was not able to install this kernel, as I was missing the ‘disutils’ package, which I had a lot of problems installing as well. So what I decided to do, is check if I could install the kernel in the 3.10 version, as it’s the default used by the OS, and it worked (I guess the default version has the ‘disutils’ package correctly installed)

I’d like to use the kernel of 3.12, however, I don’t know how to install it.Is there a way of leaving the 3.10 version as default for the OS, but using the 3.12 everywhere else, or could this create conflict?