SDKManager failed to flash Jetson Nano

FLASHING FAILED when flashing Jetson Nano using sdkmanager

Config:
Host
Jetson Nano (developer kit)
JetPack 4.4 DP
DeepStream

I used the Auto Recovery Mode option and Jetson Nano entered recovery mode correctly (0955:7f21 was found in lsusb). But flashing progress failed every time. The same situation happend on both VMWare Player and real computer with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

The terminal log:

00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : /usr/bin/env:
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : ‘python’
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : : No such file or directory
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) :
00:17:32 INFO : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : Reading board information failed.
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : [exec_command]: /bin/bash -c /tmp/tmp_NV_L4T_FLASH_NANO_DEVKIT_WITH_OS_IMAGE_COMP.sh; [error]: exit status 1
00:17:32 INFO : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : [ Component Install Finished with Error ]
00:17:32 INFO : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : [ 8.00 KB used. Disk Avail: 82.27 GB ]
00:17:32 INFO : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : [ NV_L4T_FLASH_NANO_DEVKIT_WITH_OS_IMAGE_COMP Install took 0s ]
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : [error]: Run commands failed at step Install: command /tmp/tmp_NV_L4T_FLASH_NANO_DEVKIT_WITH_OS_IMAGE_COMP.sh finished with error
00:17:32 INFO : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) :
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : command terminated with error
00:17:32 ERROR : Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit) : Install 'Flash Jetson Nano (Devkit)' failure, command < using adapter to install NV_L4T_FLASH_NANO_DEVKIT_WITH_OS_IMAGE_COMP@JETSON_NANO_DEVKIT to /home/ubuntu/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_4.4_DP_Linux_DP_JETSON_NANO_DEVKIT > terminated with error.
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On the host PC, try this, then try flash again (assuming the following command succeeds):

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install python
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Thank you very much! Flash success after installing python.