pip3 installs inside virtual environment with python3.6 failing due to ssl module not available

Question

(py36venv) vagrant@pvagrant-dev-vm:/vagrant/venvs$ pip3 install pep8

pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.

Collecting pep8 Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available. - skipping

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pep8 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for pep8

Background information - Trying to move to python 3.6.

Installed python3.6 using the below commands:

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tgz

tar -xvf Python-3.6.0.tgz

cd Python-3.6.0
./configure --enable-optimizations
make -j8 sudo make altinstall python3.6

Created virtualenv by:

python3.6 -m venv py36venv

source py36venv/bin/activate

Tried to install pep8

(py36venv) pip3 install pep8

pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available. Collecting pep8

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the

SSL module is not available. - skipping Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pep8 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for pep8

Answer 1

I followed the below steps for python3.6 installation in ubuntu 14.04 and virtualenv pip installs works fine.

Python 3.6 Installation:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/Python-3.6.0.tgz   tar xvf Python-3.6.0.tgz cd Python-3.6.0 ./configure --enable-optimizations   make -j8   sudo make altinstall python3.6 

If seeing the following error --

zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available make: *** [altinstall] Error 1

try:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev 

Validation:

Create virtualenv in python3.6:

python3.6 -m venv testenv source testenv/bin/activate pip install pep8 

using pip:

(testenv) vagrant@pvagrant-dev-vm:~$ pip install pep8 *Collecting pep8   Downloading pep8-1.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (41kB)     100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 4.1MB/s Installing collected packages: pep8 Successfully installed pep8-1.7.0*  (testenv) vagrant@pvagrant-dev-vm:~$ pip list  pep8 (1.7.0)  pip (9.0.1) setuptools (28.8.0)