How to properly install Pipenv on WSL Ubuntu 18.04?
Solution 1
If pipenv
installed successfully there will be a short notice like this:
The scripts pipenv and pipenv-resolver are installed in '~/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
According to the documentation:
This does a user installation to prevent breaking any system-wide packages. If pipenv isn’t available in your shell after installation, you’ll need to add the user base’s binary directory to your PATH.
On Linux and macOS you can find the user base binary directory by running python -m site --user-base and adding bin to the end. For example, this will typically print ~/.local (with ~ expanded to the absolute path to your home directory) so you’ll need to add ~/.local/bin to your PATH. You can set your PATH permanently by modifying ~/.profile.
Follow this:
- Open
~/.profile
file. - Check if
~/.local/bin
path exist in that file. - If not add these following lines
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi
- Run
bash --login
for login mode because~/.profile
is executed for login shells. - Optionally, add those lines in
~/.bashrc
for non login shell.
Solution 2
This works for me when I want to install a python package globally into /usr/local/bin/
.
sudo -H pip3 install pipenv
If you are looking at installing it globally for the user, follow the method in the documentation:
pip3 install --user pipenv
Here is where I installed globally on a Ubuntu 18.0.4 machine:
$ sudo -H pip3 install pipenv
Collecting pipenv
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/13/b4/3ffa55f77161cff9a5220f162670f7c5eb00df52e00939e203f601b0f579/pipenv-2018.11.26-py3-none-any.whl (5.2MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 5.2MB 279kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: pip>=9.0.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pipenv)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=36.2.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pipenv)
Requirement already satisfied: virtualenv-clone>=0.2.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from pipenv)
Requirement already satisfied: virtualenv in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from pipenv)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pipenv)
Installing collected packages: pipenv
Successfully installed pipenv-2018.11.26
$ which pipenv
/usr/local/bin/pipenv
$ pipenv --version
pipenv, version 2018.11.26
Solution 3
We ran into issues just like you did. You may try the following, since it works for us:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
Don´t upgrade yet, takes longer.
Edit ~/.profile, like Biswapriyo´s answer above. Ours, we add:
# Add home user directory to path
export PATH="/home/$USER/.local/bin:$PATH"
Then proceed with the commands below:
$ sudo apt install python3.7 python3-pip -y
$ python3.7 -m pip install --user pip
$ python3.7 -m pip install --user pipenv
Then, we run commands like this:
$ python3.7 -m pipenv check
UPDATE: You can also use it like this:
$pipenv check --python=`which python3.7`
Found this answer at 2018.11.26: pipenv emits pythons errors when creating a virtualenv #3363
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Comments
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byake over 1 year
I know this sounds like a pretty basic question but i've been frustrating myself to no end for the better part of a day. Am trying to set up a python environment in Windows Subsystem for Linux and everything seems to break when I install pipenv.
Steps to reproduce:
Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 from windows store
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install --user pipenv
Pip outputs everything i would expect, no errors, looks like pipenv is installed.
if I try use pipenv i get
pipenv: command not found
even though my local bin is in my PATHworse than that though, pip is now broken and attempting to use pip gives me the following:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module> from pip import main ImportError: cannot import name 'main'
So it seems like the pipenv installation ruined the system pip by trying to install its own. I thought the
--user
flag would have avoided that but anyways am stuck, any help appreciated.-
Joe over 4 yearsThe ImportError you get, it's not because of pipenv. It's caused by
pip
upgrading from 9.0 to 19+. I can reproduce it 100% of the time..