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pip ImportError: cannot import name 'main' after update
See original GitHub issueMaintainer note: Anyone that still gets this issue please see #5599.
Environment
- pip version: ???
- Python version: 3.5.2
- OS: Linux sas-linuxmint 4.4.0-92-generic #115-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 10 09:04:33 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
sas@sas-linuxmint /usr/bin $ pip3 install --user --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0f/74/ecd13431bcc456ed390b44c8a6e917c1820365cbebcb6a8974d1cd045ab4/pip-10.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-8.1.1
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
ImportError: cannot import name 'main'
sas@sas-linuxmint /usr/bin $ pip3 install --upgrade pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module>
from pip import main
ImportError: cannot import name 'main'
Issue Analytics
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- Created 5 years ago
- Reactions:5
- Comments:18 (5 by maintainers)
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hash -d pipworked for meI had the same problem, but uninstall and reinstall with apt and pip didn’t work for me.
I saw another solution on stackoverflow that presents a easy way to recover pip3 path:
sudo python3 -m pip uninstall pip && sudo apt install python3-pip --reinstall