So I'm trying to use Paramiko on Ubuntu with Python 2.7, but import paramiko causes this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named paramiko
The other questions on this site don't help me since I'm new to Ubuntu.
Here are some important commands that I ran to check stuff:
sudo pip install paramiko
pip install paramiko
sudo apt-get install python-paramiko
Paramiko did "install". These are the only commands I used to "install" paramiko. I'm new to Ubuntu, so if I need to run more commands, lay them on me.
which python
/usr/local/bin/python
python -c "from pprint import pprint; import sys; pprint(sys.path);"
['',
'/usr/local/lib/python27.zip',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
In the python interpreter, I ran help("modules")
and Paramiko is not in the list.
two paramiko folders are located in usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
.
Short version: You're mixing Ubuntu's packaged version of Python (/usr/bin/python
) and a locally built and installed version (/usr/local/bin/python
).
Long version:
apt-get install python-paramiko
to install Ubuntu's official Paramiko package to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
.pip
, which installs to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
. (See here.)/usr/local/lib/python2.7
instead of /usr/lib/python2.7
, and because it doesn't have Debian/Ubuntu customizations, it doesn't check use dist-packages
.Solution: You should be able to add /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
to your /usr/local/bin/python
's sys.path
, but since you're using Ubuntu, it's easiest to let Ubuntu do the work for you:
apt-get
instead of pip
).I'd go so far as to uninstall the local version of Python and delete /usr/local/lib/python2.7
, to ensure that no further mismatches occur. If you don't want to be that drastic, then you can edit your $PATH to put /usr/bin
before /usr/local/bin
to run the system version of Python by default.
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