Unable to install boto3

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I have trouble installing boto3 inside a virtual environment    I have done what the document says  First I activated virtual environment  then I did a   Sudo pip install boto3   Now I enter python   gt  gt  import boto3 ImportError  No module named boto3   But if I import boto  it works   gt  gt  import boto  gt  gt  boto Version  2 38 0    Why does it install boto 2 38 when I installed boto3  I tried closing the terminal and re-opened it  Should I restart the Ubuntu machine

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Though this is an old post  I am posting how I resolved in case it helps others  Since I used sudo to do the install of the boto3 library the permissions on the boto3 directory was set to 700  Either change the permissions to be readable by others or run the python command as sudo

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There is another possible scenario that might get some people as well  if you have python and python3 on your system   pip3 install boto3  Note the use of pip3 indicates the use of Python 3 s pip installation vs just pip which indicates the use of Python 2 s

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Try this it works sudo apt install python-pip pip install boto3

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I had a similar problem  but the accepted answer did not resolve it - I was not using a virtual environment  This is what I had to do   sudo python -m pip install boto3   I do not know why this behaved differently from sudo pip install boto3

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I have faced the same issue and also not using virtual environment  easy install is working for me   easy install boto3

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try this way        python -m pip install --user boto3

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Don t use sudo in a virtual environment because it ignores the environment s variables and therefore sudo pip refers to your global pip installation   So with your environment activated  rerun pip install boto3 but without sudo

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Do not run as sudo  just type   pip3 install boto3  1 7 40 --user  Enjoy

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