Getting ssl certificate errors while using command pip3 install <anything>

Description

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘pypi.org’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError(“Can’t connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.”)) - skipping tried adding trusted host and the trusted host command but nothing seems to work for me on centos 7.9 also tried adding trusted host in pip.ini file tried with python 3.10 as well

Expected behavior

No response

pip version

pip-21.2.4

Python version

3.101.2 , 3.11

OS

centos 7.9

How to Reproduce

1. install python on centos 7 using this link https://linuxstans.com/how-to-install-python-centos/
2. then use command pip3.11 install unittest-xml-reporting
3. it throws warnings and error
4. anything with pip install is not working

Output

[root@localhost Documents]# python3.10 -m pip install -U pip
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (21.2.4)
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/pip/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/pip/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/pip/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/pip/
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/pip/
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")) - skipping

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[ferqui]

Hello, I have the same problem when trying to use pip, but in my case I don’t have the warning “WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.”. I have:

  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])"))': /packages/4d/16/0a14ca596f30316efd412a60bdfac02a7259bf8673d4d917dc60b9a21812/pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])"))': /packages/4d/16/0a14ca596f30316efd412a60bdfac02a7259bf8673d4d917dc60b9a21812/pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])"))': /packages/4d/16/0a14ca596f30316efd412a60bdfac02a7259bf8673d4d917dc60b9a21812/pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])"))': /packages/4d/16/0a14ca596f30316efd412a60bdfac02a7259bf8673d4d917dc60b9a21812/pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])"))': /packages/4d/16/0a14ca596f30316efd412a60bdfac02a7259bf8673d4d917dc60b9a21812/pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /packages/4d/16/0a14ca596f30316efd412a60bdfac02a7259bf8673d4d917dc60b9a21812/pip-22.0.4-py3-none-any.whl (Caused by SSLError(SSLError("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'tls_process_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')])")))

I am using python 3.8 and if I try run python3.8 -c “import ssl” just works fine. What else could be this problem?

[Mate2xo]

Had this same problem, after updating my system (Manjaro linux). Before that I had no such issue. I already had openssl 3.0.7 butI had to also install the openssl-1.1 package to get it working again