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ImportError: cannot import name util

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Describe the bug Following the installation instructions does not succeed on Debian Stable (buster).

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Run cli command ‘pip install checkov’

root@buster:~# pip install checkov
Collecting checkov
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8f/cc/f3f488215771f2f81a10a5c256be1e49860c16bd74e72bcaa4df10bed84d/checkov-1.0.669.tar.gz (153kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 153kB 2.8MB/s
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-DJZ3d5/checkov/setup.py", line 4, in <module>
        from importlib import util
    ImportError: cannot import name util

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-DJZ3d5/checkov/

Expected behavior The installation instructions should work on Debian Stable.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

root@buster:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Additional context

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

schosterbarakcommented, Aug 11, 2021

@ckea @larryboymi checkov works with python 3.7 and above. it will not work with 2.7

1reaction

jwcmdcommented, Dec 19, 2020

It’s a cinnamon-bun Oreo! Would recommend lol

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