Pipenv: Command Not Found

Question

I'm new to Python development and attempting to use pipenv. I ran the command pip install pipenv, which ran successfully:

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Successfully built pipenv pathlib shutilwhich pythonz-bd virtualenv-clone
Installing collected packages: virtualenv, pathlib, shutilwhich, backports.shutil-get-terminal-size, pythonz-bd, virtualenv-clone, pew, first, six, click, pip-tools, certifi, chardet, idna, urllib3, requests, pipenv
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However, when I run the command pipenv install in a fresh root project directory I receive the following message: -bash: pipenv: command not found. I suspect that I might need to modify my .bashrc, but I'm unclear about what to add to the file or if modification is even necessary.

Solution 1

That happens because you are not installing it globally (system wide). For it to be available in your path you need to install it using sudo, like this:

$ sudo pip install pipenv

Solution 2

This fixed it for me:

sudo -H pip install -U pipenv

Solution 3

If you've done a user installation, you'll need to add the right folder to your PATH variable.

PYTHON_BIN_PATH="$(python3 -m site --user-base)/bin"
PATH="$PATH:$PYTHON_BIN_PATH"

See pipenv's installation instructions

Solution 4

I tried this:

python -m pipenv  # for python2

python3 -m pipenv # for python3

Solution 5

I have same problem with pipenv on Mac OS X 10.13 High Seirra, another Mac works just fine. I use Heroku to deploy my Django servers, some in 2.7 and some in 3.6. So, I need both 2.7 and 3.6. When HomeBrew install Python, it keeps python points to original 2.7, and python3 points to 3.6.

The problem might due to $ pip install pipenv. I checked /usr/local/bin and pipenv isn't there. So, I tried a full uninstall:

$ pip uninstall pipenv

Cannot uninstall requirement pipenv, not installed
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ pip3 uninstall pipenv
Skipping pipenv as it is not installed.

Then reinstall and works now:

$ pip3 install pipenv
Collecting pipenv

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Comments

[phd]

Check /usr/local/bin/pipenv — is it there? Is /usr/local/bin in your $PATH?

[aDone]

Same problem here: succesfully built pipenv but no sign of pipenv folder in /usr/local/bin .

[dethos]

Are you installing pipenv globally?

[kojiro]

This is a popular question with a lot of highly upvoted answers that recommend the use of sudo; however, sudo is a dangerous command that should not be run without careful consideration. Please do not blindly copy and paste from the answers here.

[Brijesh]

For Windows, 1. In Gitbash do this and check the location packages. pip list -v and this will give the list of packages and the location the are installed. 2. In command Prompt (cmd) enter PATH and check in output if the c:\users\test\appdata\roaming\python\python36\Scripts or the path mentioned in output of 1st command is there, if not present update the system Env variable. 3. Close the CMD prompt and GIt Bash and check again, PIPENV should work now.

[michael]

for the copy-and-pasters out there, this command is usually run as sudo -H pip install -U pipenv (eg on ubuntu), installing pipenv in /usr/local/bin. The alternative is a user install, e.g., $ pip install pipenv, which is the same as $ pip install --user pipenv, which installs things in $HOME/.local/..., requiring the PATH to be modified as in the other answer, stackoverflow.com/a/47111756/127971

[eksortso]

This was useful, in that I needed to run pipenv run, and the installation instructions told me so.

[Andrey Vaganov]

@Babbz77 The -H (HOME) for sudo option requests that the security policy set the HOME environment variable to the home directory of the target user (root by default) as specified by the password database. The -U for pip install upgrade all specified packages to the newest available version. The handling of dependencies depends on the upgrade - strategy used.

[Claudio Santos]

You must test python3 -m site to see if the --user-base dir exist!

[Ozkan Serttas]

I installed python3 through Homebrew. When ran which python3 the output was /Cellar/python/3.7.7/bin/python3 which I assigned it to my PATH but still ``pipenv` not found`. Any idea?

[kojiro]

Sudo is dangerous and just not needed for this. Folks should really never run sudo pip install anywhere. Most likely you'd want to use your package manager, be it apt, or homebrew, or whatever. For example, brew install pipenv works nicely on macOS. If your package manager doesn't happen to have pipenv in its catalog, then pip install --user is a reasonable alternative.

[FedericoCapaldo]

this made it work, many thanks!

[analyst_47]

Thank you for this

[Jason R Stevens CFA]

This is the right way to rock the local installation. Thank you!

[thenewjames]

brew install pipenv is discouraged by the maintainers

[Can]

Thanks! This solved it for me on windows!