I'd like to start by pointing out that this question may seem like a duplicate, but it isn't. All the questions I saw here were regarding pip for Python 3 and I'm talking about Python 3.6. The steps used back then don't work for Python 3.6.
apt-get update
apt-get install python3.6
apt-get install python3-pip
pip3 install requests bs4
python3.6 script.py
Got ModuleNotFoundError
below:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "script.py", line 6, in <module>
import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'
Python's and pip's I have in the machine:
python3
python3.5
python3.5m
python3.6
python3m
python3-config
python3.5-config
python3.5m-config
python3.6m
python3m-config
pip
pip3
pip3.5
This question is related to
python-3.x
ubuntu
pip
installation
This website contains a much cleaner solution, it leaves pip intact as-well and one can easily switch between 3.5 and 3.6 and then whenever 3.7 is released.
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/07/install-python-3-6-1-in-ubuntu-16-04-lts/
A short summary:
sudo apt-get install python python-pip python3 python3-pip
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.5 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.6 2
Then
$ pip -V
pip 8.1.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)
$ pip3 -V
pip 8.1.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (python 3.5)
Then to select python 3.6 run
sudo update-alternatives --config python3
and select '2'. Then
$ pip3 -V
pip 8.1.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (python 3.6)
To update pip select the desired version and
pip3 install --upgrade pip
$ pip3 -V
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (python 3.6)
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04.
This answer assumes that you have python3.6
installed. For python3.7
, replace 3.6
with 3.7
. For python3.8
, replace 3.6
with 3.8
, but it may also first require the python3.8-distutils
package.
With regard to installing pip
, using curl
(instead of wget
) avoids writing the file to disk.
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo -H python3.6
The -H
flag is evidently necessary with sudo
in order to prevent errors such as the following when installing pip for an updated python interpreter:
The directory '/home/someuser/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
The directory '/home/someuser/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.6 - --user
This may sometimes give a warning such as:
WARNING: The script wheel is installed in '/home/ubuntu/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
After this, pip
, pip3
, and pip3.6
can all be expected to point to the same target:
$ (pip -V && pip3 -V && pip3.6 -V) | uniq
pip 18.0 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (python 3.6)
Of course you can alternatively use python3.6 -m pip
as well.
$ python3.6 -m pip -V
pip 18.0 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (python 3.6)
In at least in ubuntu 16.10, the default python3
is python3.5
. As such, all of the python3-X
packages will be installed for python3.5 and not for python3.6.
You can verify this by checking the shebang of pip3
:
$ head -n1 $(which pip3)
#!/usr/bin/python3
Fortunately, the pip installed by the python3-pip
package is installed into the "shared" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
such that python3.6 can also take advantage of it.
You can install packages for python3.6 by doing:
python3.6 -m pip install ...
For example:
$ python3.6 -m pip install requests
$ python3.6 -c 'import requests; print(requests.__file__)'
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py
Source: Stackoverflow.com