orachk 18.2.0 beta - Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>

Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>

Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

 

 

Current thread 0x00007ffff7fdb740 (most recent call first):

./orachk: line 380:  7127 Aborted                 (core dumped) $RAT_PYTHONEXE $TOOLPATH/$PROGRAMN.pyc "$@"

 

python --version

Python 2.7.5

 

>setting the $PYTHONHOME leads to this result

 

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

 

Current thread 0x00007ffff7fdb740 (most recent call first):

./orachk: line 380: 12341 Aborted                 (core dumped) $RAT_PYTHONEXE $TOOLPATH/$PROGRAMN.pyc "$@"