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"/usr/bin/python: No module named mssqlcli"

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I’ve followed the installation instructions and when I try to run mssql-cli I get the subject error message.

Installation went OK so I am not sure what is wrong? I’m using Ubuntu 17.10

joakim@XPS:~$ pip install mssql-cli
Requirement already satisfied: mssql-cli in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied: cli-helpers<1.0.0,>=0.2.3 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: click>=4.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: Pygments>=2.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: configobj>=5.0.6 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: future>=0.16.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: enum34>=1.1.6 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: wheel>=0.29.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: prompt-toolkit<1.1.0,>=1.0.10 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: applicationinsights>=0.11.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: humanize>=0.5.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: sqlparse<0.3.0,>=0.2.2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: backports.csv>=1.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from cli-helpers<1.0.0,>=0.2.3->mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: terminaltables>=3.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from cli-helpers<1.0.0,>=0.2.3->mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from configobj>=5.0.6->mssql-cli)
Requirement already satisfied: wcwidth in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from prompt-toolkit<1.1.0,>=1.0.10->mssql-cli)

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Created 6 years ago
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4reactions

m3asmicommented, Sep 28, 2018

fixing it by installing by pip2 pip2 install mssql-cli

2reactions

jakellycommented, Sep 9, 2021

I modified the mssql-cli command and changed the last line from:

python -m mssqlcli.main "$@"

to:

python3 -m mssqlcli.main "$@"

and now it appears to be running on Python3.

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