Re: Cant run pip3 as user.

[Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de>]

On 4/30/19 7:40 PM, aprekates wrote:
> Hi . Strangely i can run pip3 as user in my Debian 9.6 .
> 
> $ which pip3
> /usr/bin/pip3
> 
> $ LANG=us sudo apt-cache policy  python3-pip
> python3-pip:
>   Installed: 9.0.1-2+deb9u1
>   Candidate: 9.0.1-2+deb9u1
>   Version table:
>  *** 9.0.1-2+deb9u1 500
>         500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> $ pip3 --version
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module>
>     from pip import main
> ImportError: cannot import name 'main'
> 
> $ sudo pip3 --version
> pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5)
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Alexandros
> 
> 

Hi,
most likely you messed up your python modules, test it by renaming
~/local/lib/python3.6 to ~/local/lib/python3.6-test and try to run pip3
again.

Also it makes more sense to ask this question on
debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-python@ is for python packages
maintenance.

Regards,
Alex