ubuntu broken python installation by mistake - python

I've tried to update Python and I didn't know about isollation of version instead delete the versions, so, I've deleted all of my Python version inside my Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Now i'm not able to install nothing trough apt-get.
:
root#vps15:/# apt-get install --reinstall python3.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
dh-python : Depends: python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I tried to install manually to source Python 2.7 to /usr/lib and that works now, but the problem now is this dependency: "dh-python".
# apt-get install python3.5-minimal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3.5-minimal is already the newest version (3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.5).
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python3.5-minimal : Depends: libpython3.5-minimal (= 3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.5) but it is not installable
Recommends: python3.5 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I've tried all the methods listed and I can't fix the dependencies.
Before trying the fixing, the problem was Python2.7 instead python3, now python3 by manual installation didn't fix the problem.

After some more research, I've founded a post related to Debian. Handling some modifications for Ubuntu 16.04, tried this guide and works everything now:
Step 1.
cd /tmp
apt-get download libpython3.5-minimal
apt-get download python3.5-minimal
apt-get download python3-minimal
apt-get download libpython3.5-stdlib
apt-get download python3.5
Step 2.
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3.5*
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/python3.5*
update-alternatives --remove python3 /usr/local/bin/python3.5
hash -r # removes cached python3 binary path
Step 3.
cd /tmp
dpkg-deb -x libpython3.5-minimal_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.13_amd64.deb missing
dpkg-deb -x libpython3.5-stdlib_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.13_amd64.deb missing
dpkg-deb -x python3.5-minimal_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.13_amd64.deb missing
dpkg-deb -x python3.5_3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.13_amd64.deb missing
dpkg-deb -x python3-minimal_3.5.1-3_amd64.deb missing
Step 4.
cd /tmp/missing
ls -lR /tmp/missing # if you are curious about overwriting your HD
sudo cp -rpfv /tmp/missing/* /
Step 5.
python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 3 2019, 05:39:12)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
Import and test new version:
>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.version_info)
sys.version_info(major=3, minor=7, micro=3, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
>>>
>>> quit()
Step 6.
rm -rf /tmp/missing
Step 7.
dpkg -s -a python3.5 | grep reinstreq
# Any listing also needs to be reinstalled along with python3
apt-get install --reinstall python3
Step 8.
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
# (see the packages that will autoremove, you need to reinstall it again after: apt-get install --fix-broken --reinstall <<packages>>)
Step 9.
Try to install common prop.
sudo apt install software-properties-common
If it works, now the installation is done.
I've tried this for Ubuntu 16.04, with working Python2.7 installation but not with Python3, or Python3.5. The original installation I've was for Python3.5, that's why tried to install that version instead newest.

Thanks for pointing me to the root cause. For me the issue was broken distro_info package installed by pip and pip itself was so broken that I could not uninstall the package via pip uninstall. I removed /usr/local/lib/python3.8 so do-release-upgrade would use the original Ubuntu packages under /usr/lib/python3.8. This solved the issue. I was updating from 20.04 => 22.04.

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RPM installation Trino throws python dependency

I'm trying to install Trino using RPM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. I install the Trino dependencies using the following commands:
$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo yum install -y java-11-openjdk.x86_64 python3
$ sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3
Then I try to install Trino from archive in single-node mode. This however gives a dependency error:
$ sudo rpm -i trino-server-rpm-368.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
python >= 2.4 is needed by trino-server-rpm-0:368-1.noarch
This error doesn't make sense to me given that this dependency is actually satisfied when checking my python version:
$ python -V
Python 3.6.8
An answers has been provided by #hashhar on this Github Issue if you actually have the correct dependencies installed:
$ sudo rpm -i --nodeps trino-server-rpm-368.rpm

pip error while installing Python: "Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 8.1.1 requires SSL/TLS"

I downloaded the Python 3.5 source code and ran the following:
$ tar -xf Python-3.5.2.tar.xz
$ ./configure --with-ensurepip=upgrade
$ make
$ sudo make altinstall
It proceeded well until make. When sudo make altinstall ran, it printed:
Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 8.1.1 requires SSL/TLS
What went wrong?
You are most likely not compiling Python with SSL/TLS support - this is likely because you don't have the SSL development dependencies installed on your system.
Install the following dependency, and then re-configure and re-compile Python 3.5.
Ubuntu
apt-get install libssl-dev
In addition it is recommended to install the following.
apt-get install make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libsqlite3-dev
CentOS
yum install openssl-devel
In addition it is recommended to install the following.
yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel
Please note that besides that as of version OpenSSL 1.1.0 (included from Ubuntu 18.04 repositories, I am not sure for other Linux distributions) there are python vesions that may have compilation issues (see this question and my answer), in short:
Python <3.4.5 and Python <3.5.3 have not implemented this newest version of OpenSSL, most likely other major Python versions suffer the same issue. The fix is to download the minor version that implements the fix (or newer). Check the full changelogs to check which minor version that is (changelog for 3.4 and 3.5)
On Ubuntu 18.04 only this worked for me
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0
CentOS:
If you didn't have openssl-devel at the time of installing python, pip 8.1.1 won't install.
After installing openssl-devel, reinstall python.
This time it should install pip just file.
I tried to install Python 3.4.10 using asdf but got following error:
$ asdf install python 3.4.10
python-build 3.4.10 /home/br0ke/.asdf/installs/python/3.4.10
Downloading Python-3.4.10.tar.xz...
-> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.10/Python-3.4.10.tar.xz
Installing Python-3.4.10...
ERROR: The Python ssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib?
Please consult to the Wiki page to fix the problem.
https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems
BUILD FAILED (Fedora 30 using python-build 1.2.15-2-g22c02022)
Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/python-build.20191121110112.9959
Results logged to /tmp/python-build.20191121110112.9959.log
Last 10 log lines:
(cd /home/br0ke/.asdf/installs/python/3.4.10/share/man/man1; ln -s python3.4.1 python3.1)
if test "xupgrade" != "xno" ; then \
case upgrade in \
upgrade) ensurepip="--upgrade" ;; \
install|*) ensurepip="" ;; \
esac; \
./python -E -m ensurepip \
$ensurepip --root=/ ; \
fi
Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 9.0.1 requires SSL/TLS
It may mean that I have too fresh OpenSSL version installed in my system and this version is not supported by Python I'm trying to build. I managed to install Python 3.4.10 on my Fedora 30 machine (has OpenSSL 1.1+ by default) using the following steps:
Temporary remove openssl-devel if it is installed as it will conflict with older version:
$ sudo dnf remove openssl-devel
Install compat OpenSSL 1.0 packages:
$ sudo dnf install compat-openssl10 compat-openssl10-devel
Build Python 3.4.10 (I use asdf but it should work with pyenv as well):
$ asdf install python 3.4.10
Remove compat library and install modern instead to be able to build something more fresh next time:
$ sudo dnf remove compat-openssl10-devel
$ sudo dnf install openssl-devel
Inspired by this workaround with help from Fedora community people.
If you use Manjaro Linux, you can use this:
sudo pacman -S openssl , check
If you are using RedHat Enterprise Linux, you can use this:
yum install openssl-devel -y
CentOS or RHEL machine Python3(3.7.0) ssl not supported as of now.
pip installation supported with Python <=3.6

Install python3-venv module on linux mint

I was able to move to Linux mint 17.3 64 bit version from my Linux mint 16. This was long awaited migration.
After moving to Linux Mint 17.3, I am not able to the install python3-venv module, which is said to be the replacement for virtualenv in python 3.x. In my linux mint 16 I had access to pyvenv-3.4 tool. I dont know when I installed that module in Linux mint 16.
Anybody faced this issue ?
python -m venv test
The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.
apt-get install python3-venv
You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.
izero#Ganesha ~/devel $ sudo apt-get install python3-venv
[sudo] password for izero:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3-venv
Try running this command:
sudo apt-get install python3.4-venv
Then use this:
python3 -m venv test
the package name is python3.4-venv and not python3-venv.
For python 3.6 I found out it was a locale issue, running this:
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Seems to solve the issue.
Source from this answer
I use python 3.6 , and so the following did the trick for me:
$ sudo apt-get install python3.6-venv
(the problem was that apt-get install python3-venv would virtualenv for 3.5)
Update all packages
sudo apt-get update
Install virtual environment 3
apt-get install python3-venv
apt install virtualenv
Check that it has been installed
virtualenv --version
Note: that this is for ubuntu 20 or variants

How to install pip with Python 3?

I want to install pip. It should support Python 3, but it requires setuptools, which is available only for Python 2.
How can I install pip with Python 3?
edit: Manual installation and use of setuptools is not the standard process anymore.
If you're running Python 2.7.9+ or Python 3.4+
Congrats, you should already have pip installed. If you do not, read onward.
If you're running a Unix-like System
You can usually install the package for pip through your package manager if your version of Python is older than 2.7.9 or 3.4, or if your system did not include it for whatever reason.
Instructions for some of the more common distros follow.
Installing on Debian (Wheezy and newer) and Ubuntu (Trusty Tahr and newer) for Python 2.x
Run the following command from a terminal:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
Installing on Debian (Wheezy and newer) and Ubuntu (Trusty Tahr and newer) for Python 3.x
Run the following command from a terminal:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
Note:
On a fresh Debian/Ubuntu install, the package may not be found until you do:
sudo apt-get update
Installing pip on CentOS 7 for Python 2.x
On CentOS 7, you have to install setup tools first, and then use that to install pip, as there is no direct package for it.
sudo yum install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
Installing pip on CentOS 7 for Python 3.x
Assuming you installed Python 3.4 from EPEL, you can install Python 3's setup tools and use it to install pip.
# First command requires you to have enabled EPEL for CentOS7
sudo yum install python34-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
If your Unix/Linux distro doesn't have it in package repos
Install using the manual way detailed below.
The manual way
If you want to do it the manual way, the now-recommended method is to install using the get-pip.py script from pip's installation instructions.
Install pip
To install pip, securely download get-pip.py
Then run the following (which may require administrator access):
python get-pip.py
If setuptools is not already installed, get-pip.py will install setuptools for you.
I was able to install pip for python 3 on Ubuntu just by running sudo apt-get install python3-pip.
Python 3.4+ and Python 2.7.9+
Good news! Python 3.4 (released March 2014) ships with Pip. This is the best feature of any Python release. It makes the community's wealth of libraries accessible to everyone. Newbies are no longer excluded by the prohibitive difficulty of setup. In shipping with a package manager, Python joins Ruby, Nodejs, Haskell, Perl, Go--almost every other contemporary language with a majority open-source community. Thank you Python.
Of course, that doesn't mean Python packaging is problem solved. The experience remains frustrating. I discuss this at Does Python have a package/module management system?
Alas for everyone using an earlier Python. Manual instructions follow.
Python ≤ 2.7.8 and Python ≤ 3.3
Follow my detailed instructions at https://stackoverflow.com/a/12476379/284795 . Essentially
Official instructions
Per https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing.html
Download get-pip.py, being careful to save it as a .py file rather than .txt. Then, run it from the command prompt.
python get-pip.py
You possibly need an administrator command prompt to do this. Follow http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947813(v=ws.10).aspx
For me, this installed Pip at C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe. Find pip.exe on your computer, then add its folder (eg. C:\Python27\Scripts) to your path (Start / Edit environment variables). Now you should be able to run pip from the command line. Try installing a package:
pip install httpie
There you go (hopefully)!
if you're using python 3.4+
just type:
python3 -m pip
For Ubuntu 12.04 or older,
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
won't work. Instead, use:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools ca-certificates
sudo easy_install3 pip
Update 2015-01-20:
As per https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html the current way is:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
I think that should work for any version
Original Answer:
wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
python distribute_setup.py
easy_install pip
Single Python in system
To install packages in Python always follow these steps:
If the package is for python 2.x: sudo python -m pip install [package]
If the package is for python 3.x: sudo python3 -m pip install [package]
Note: This is assuming no alias is set for python
Through this method, there will be no confusion regarding which python version is receiving the package.
Multiple Pythons/Virtual Envs
Say you have python3 ↔ python3.6 and python3.7 ↔ python3.7
To install for python3.6: sudo python3 -m pip install [package]
To instal for python3.7: sudo python3.7 -m pip install [package]
This is essentially the same method as shown previously.
Note 1
How to find which python? Do one of the following:
~ » python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"
3.9.5 (default, Nov 18 2021, 16:00:48)
your python3 command spawns:
~ » python3
Python 3.9.5 (default, Nov 18 2021, 16:00:48)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
Notice python 3.9.5 in the second line.
or say you are using virtual env and see where your python points to:
» which python
/home/ganesh/os/np-test/bin/python
Note 2
Change what python3 or python points to: https://askubuntu.com/questions/320996/how-to-make-python-program-command-execute-python-3
python3 -m ensurepip
I'm not sure when exactly this was introduced, but it's installed pip3 for me when it didn't already exist.
Older version of Homebrew
If you are on macOS, use homebrew.
brew install python3 # this installs python only
brew postinstall python3 # this command installs pip
Also note that you should check the console if the install finished successfully. Sometimes it doesn't (e.g. an error due to ownership), but people simply overlook the log.
UPDATED - Homebrew version after 1.5
According to the official Homebrew page:
On 1st March 2018 the python formula will be upgraded to Python 3.x and a python#2 formula will be added for installing Python 2.7 (although this will be keg-only so neither python nor python2 will be added to the PATH by default without a manual brew link --force). We will maintain python2, python3 and python#3 aliases.
So to install Python 3, run the following command:
brew install python3
Then, the pip is installed automatically, and you can install any package by pip install <package>.
If your Linux distro came with Python already installed, you should be able to install PIP using your system’s package manager. This is preferable since system-installed versions of Python do not play nicely with the get-pip.py script used on Windows and Mac.
Advanced Package Tool (Python 2.x)
sudo apt-get install python-pip
Advanced Package Tool (Python 3.x)
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
pacman Package Manager (Python 2.x)
sudo pacman -S python2-pip
pacman Package Manager (Python 3.x)
sudo pacman -S python-pip
Yum Package Manager (Python 2.x)
sudo yum upgrade python-setuptools
sudo yum install python-pip python-wheel
Yum Package Manager (Python 3.x)
sudo yum install python3 python3-wheel
Dandified Yum (Python 2.x)
sudo dnf upgrade python-setuptools
sudo dnf install python-pip python-wheel
Dandified Yum (Python 3.x)
sudo dnf install python3 python3-wheel
Zypper Package Manager (Python 2.x)
sudo zypper install python-pip python-setuptools python-wheel
Zypper Package Manager (Python 3.x)
sudo zypper install python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel
This is the one-liner I copy-and-paste:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3
Alternate:
curl -L get-pip.io | python3
From Installing with get-pip.py:
To install pip, securely download get-pip.py by following this link:
get-pip.py. Alternatively, use
curl:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
Then run the following command in the folder where you have downloaded
get-pip.py:
python get-pip.py
Warning: Be cautious if you are using a Python install that is managed
by your operating system or another package manager. get-pip.py does
not coordinate with those tools, and may leave your system in an
inconsistent state.
If you use several different versions of python try using virtualenv http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/virtualenv.html#installation
With the advantage of pip for each local environment.
Then install a local environment in the current directory by:
virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3.3 ENV --verbose
Note that you specify the path to a python binary you have installed on your system.
Then there are now an local pythonenvironment in that folder. ./ENV
Now there should be ./ENV/pip-3.3
use
./ENV/pip-3.3 freeze to list the local installed libraries.
use ./ENV/pip-3.3 install packagename to install at the local environment.
use ./ENV/python3.3 pythonfile.py to run your python script.
Here is my way to solve this problem at ubuntu 12.04:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev
Then install the python3 from source code:
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.0/Python-3.4.0.tar.xz
tar xvf Python-3.4.0.tar.xz
cd Python-3.4.0
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
When you finished installing all of them, pip3 will get installed automatically.
This is what I did on OS X Mavericks to get this to work.
Firstly, have brew installed
Install python 3.4
brew install python3
Then I get the latest version of distribute:
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.7.3.zip#md5=c6c59594a7b180af57af8a0cc0cf5b4a
unzip distribute-0.7.3.zip
cd distribute-0.7.3
sudo setup.py install
sudo easy_install-3.4 pip
sudo pip3.4 install virtualenv
sudo pip3.4 install virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv py3
python --version
Python 3.4.1
I hope this helps.
pip is installed together when you install Python. You can use
sudo pip install (module)
or
python3 -m pip install (module).
Please follow below steps to install python 3 with pip:
Step 1 : Install Python from download here
Step 2 : you’ll need to download get-pip.py
Step 3 : After download get-pip.py , open your commant prompt and go to directory where your get-pip.py file saved .
Step 4 : Enter command python get-pip.py in cmd.
Step 5 : Pip installed successfully , Verify pip installation by type command in cmd pip --version
What’s New In Python 3.4
...
pip should always be available
...
By default, the commands pipX and pipX.Y will be installed on all platforms (where X.Y stands for the version of the Python installation), along with the pip Python package and its dependencies.
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html#whatsnew-pep-453
so if you have python 3.4 installed, you can just: sudo pip3 install xxx
For python3 try this:
wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python
The good thing is that It will also detect what version of python you have (even if it's an environment of python in your custom location).
After this you can proceed normally with (for example)
pip install numpy
source:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/1.1.6#upgrading-from-setuptools-0-6
Assuming you are in a highly restricted computer env (such as myself) without root access or ability to install packages...
I had never setup a fresh/standalone/raw/non-root instance of Python+virtualenv before this post. I had do quite a bit of Googling to make this work.
Decide if you are using python (python2) or python3 and set your PATH correctly. (I am strictly a python3 user.) All commands below can substitute python3 for python if you are python2 user.
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzvf virtualenv-x.y.z.tar.gz
python3 virtualenv-x.y.z/virtualenv.py --python $(which python3) /path/to/new/virtualenv
source /path/to/new/virtualenv/bin/activate
Assumes you are using a Bourne-compatible shell, e.g., bash
Brilliantly, this virtualenv package includes a standalone version of pip and setuptools that are auto-magically installed into each new virtualenv. This solves the chicken and egg problem.
You may want to create an alias (or update your ~/.bashrc, etc.) for this final command to activate the python virtualenv during each login. It can be a pain to remember all these paths and commands.
Check your version of python now: which python3 should give: /path/to/new/virtualenv/bin/python3
Check pip is also available in the virtualenv via which pip... should give: /path/to/new/virtualenv/bin/pip
Then... pip, pip, pip!
Final tip to newbie Pythoneers: You don't think you need virtualenv when you start, but you will be happy to have it later. Helps with "what if" installation / upgrade scenarios for open source / shared packages.
Ref: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/installation.html
To install pip, securely download get-pip.py.
Then run the following:
python get-pip.py
Be cautious if you're using a Python install that's managed by your
operating system or another package manager. get-pip.py does not
coordinate with those tools, and may leave your system in an
inconsistent state.
Refer: PIP Installation
And for Windows 8.1/10 OS Users just open cmd (command prompt)
write this : C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts
then
just write this : pip3 install {name of package}
Hint: the location of folder Python36-32 may get different for new python 3.x versions
If you used the command "python get-pip.py", you should have the 'pip' function for Python3. However, 'pip' for Python2 might still be present. In my case I uninstalled 'pip', which removed it from Python2.
After that I ran "python get-pip.py" again. (Make sure that 'get-pip.py' is saved in the same folder as Python3.) The final step was to add the directory with 'pip' command to $PATH. That solved it for me.
=>Easy way to install Python any version on Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 20.04 follow these steps:-
Step 1: Update Local Repositories:-
sudo apt update
Step 2: Install Supporting Software:-
sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev wget
Step3: Create directory on your home directory To download the newest release of Python Source Code, navigate to the /python-source-files directory and use the wget command:-
mkdir python-source-files
Step 4: Download the Latest Version of Python Source Code:-
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.5/Python-3.7.5.tgz
"you can change python version by just modifies this:-"3.7.5" with the version you want example:-"3.5.2"
Step 5: Extract Compressed Files:-
tar –xf Python-3.7.5.tgz
or
tar xvzf Python-3.7.5.tgz
Step 6: Test System and Optimize Python:-
cd python-3.7.5 or your version of python.
Step 7: Now configure(Using the ––optimization option speeds code execution by 10-20%.):-
./configure ––enable–optimizations
OR you can also do this also if you facing ssl error:-
./configure --with-openssl
Step 8: Install a Second Instance of Python:-
sudo make altinstall
"It is recommended that you use the altinstall method. Your Ubuntu system may have software packages dependent on Python 2.x.
OR
If you want to Overwrite Default Python Installation/version:-
sudo make install"
Step 9:Now check Python Version:-
python3 ––version
Step 10: To install pip for python3 just go with this command:-
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

I can't install python-ldap

When I run the following command:
sudo pip install python-ldap
I get this error:
In file included from Modules/LDAPObject.c:9:
Modules/errors.h:8: fatal error: lber.h: No such file or directory
Any ideas how to fix this?
The python-ldap is based on OpenLDAP, so you need to have the development files (headers) in order to compile the Python module. If you're on Ubuntu, the package is called libldap2-dev.
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev python-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev
RedHat/CentOS:
sudo yum install python-devel openldap-devel
To install python-ldap successfully with pip, following development libraries are needed (package names taken from ubuntu environment):
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev
On CentOS/RHEL 6, you need to install:
sudo yum install python-devel
sudo yum install openldap-devel
and yum will also install cyrus-sasl-devel as a dependency. Then you can run:
pip-2.7 install python-ldap
"Don't blindly remove/install software"
In a Ubuntu or Debian based distro, you can use apt-file to find the name of the exact package that includes the missing header file.
# do this once
sudo apt-get install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
$ apt-file search lber.h
libldap2-dev: /usr/include/lber.h
As you could see from the output of apt-file search lber.h, you'd just need to install the package libldap2-dev.
sudo apt-get install libldap2-dev
In Ubuntu it looks like this :
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev
$ sudo pip install python-ldap
Windows: I completely agree with the accepted answer, but digging through the comments took a while to get to the meat of what I needed. I ran across this specific problem with Reviewboard on Windows using the Bitnami. To give an answer for windows then, I used this link mentioned in the comments:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-ldap
placed that wheel (whl file) into my reviewboard install directory
Then, executed the following commands
easy_install pip
pip install python_ldap-2.4.20-cp27-none_win32.whl
(because I had python 2.7 and a 32bit install at that)
easy_install python-ldap
For those having the same issue of missing Iber.h on Alpine Linux, in a docker image that you are trying to adapt to Alpine for instance.
The package you are looking for is: openldap-dev
So run
apk add openldap-dev
Available from version 3.3 up to Edge
Available for both armhf and x86_64 Architectures.
On Fedora 22, you need to do this instead:
sudo dnf install python-devel
sudo dnf install openldap-devel
On openSUSE you need to install the packages openldap2-devel, cyrus-sasl-devel, python-devel and libopenssl-devel.
zypper install openldap2-devel cyrus-sasl-devel python-devel libopenssl-devel
python3 does not support python-ldap. Rather to install ldap3.
For alpine docker
apk add openldap-dev
if the python version is 3 and above try
pip install python3-ldap
I had problems with the installation on Windows, so one of the solutions is to install the ldap package manually.
A few steps:
Go to the page pyldap or/and python-ldap and download the latest version *whl.
Open a console then cd to where you've downloaded your file like some-package.whl and use:
pip install some-package.whl
The current version for pyldap is 2.4.45. On a concrete example the installation would be:
pip install .\pyldap-2.4.45-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
# or
pip install .\python_ldap‑3.3.1‑cp39‑cp39‑win_amd64.whl
Output:
Installing collected packages: pyldap
Successfully installed pyldap-2.4.45
EDIT
You can install the proper version for Python-3.X though using following command:
# if pip3 is the default pip alias for python-3
pip3 install python3-ldap
# otherwise
pip install python3-ldap
Also here is the link of PiPy package for further information: python3-ldap 0.9.8.4
OR
ldap3 is a strictly RFC 4510 conforming LDAP V3 pure Python client library. The same codebase runs in Python 2, Python 3, PyPy and PyPy3: https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3
pip install ldap3
from ldap3 import Server, Connection, SAFE_SYNC
server = Server('my_server')
conn = Connection(server, 'my_user', 'my_password', client_strategy=SAFE_SYNC, auto_bind=True)
status, result, response, _ = conn.search('o=test', '(objectclass=*)')
# usually you don't need the original request (4th element of the returned tuple)
For most systems, the build requirements are now mentioned in python-ldap's documentation, in the "Installing" section.
If anything is missing for your system (or your system is missing entirely), please let maintainer know!
(As of 2018, I am the maintainer, so a comment here should be enough. Or you can send a pull request or mail.)
To correct the error due to dependencies to install the python-ldap : Windows 7/10
download the whl file
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-ldap.
python 3.6 suit with
python_ldap-3.2.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Deploy the file in :
c:\python36\Scripts\
install it with
python -m pip install python_ldap-3.2.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev python2.7-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev slapd ldap-utils python-tox lcov valgrind
Debian Reference :
https://www.python-ldap.org/en/latest/installing.html#debian
For others: https://www.python-ldap.org/en/latest/installing.html
On OSX, you need the xcode CLI tools. Just open a terminal and run:
xcode-select --install
For ArchLinux/Manjaro for me helped the following command:
yay libldap24
As of december 2021 there was/is a strange problem with the ldap library (at least in arch/manjaro).
While installing python-ldap (at 'Building wheel for python-ldap') I got the message 'ERROR: Failed building wheel for python-ldap':
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lldap_r
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
a workaround is provided here: https://github.com/python-ldap/python-ldap/issues/432#issuecomment-974799221
I cite:
As a workaround create the file /usr/lib64/libldap_r.so with content
INPUT ( libldap.so ). The approach works on all systems that use a GNU
ld-compatible linker.
# cat > /usr/lib64/libldap_r.so << EOF
INPUT ( libldap.so )
EOF
In FreeBSD 11:
pkg install openldap-client # for lber.h
pkg install cyrus-sasl # if you need sasl.h
pip install python-ldap
As a general solution to install Python packages with binary dependencies [1] on Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get build-dep python-ldap
# installs system dependencies (but not the package itself)
pew workon my_virtualenv # enter your virtualenv
pip install python-ldap
You'll have to check the name of your Python package on Ubuntu versus PyPI. In this case they're the same.
Obviously doesn't work if the Python package is not in the Ubuntu repos.
[1] I learnt this trick when trying to pip install matplotlib on Ubuntu.
If you're working with windows machines, you can find 'python-ldap' wheel in this Link and then you can install it
for those who are using alphine linux,
apk add openldap-dev
try:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" pip3 install python-ldap
Adding also libzbar-dev solved for me the installation of python-ldap when building DOCKER
The full command becomes:
apt-get install -y python-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev libzbar-dev
A hack answer for FreeBSD 13.1 (yes, I know this is deep South of best practices, but I just needed a quick fix):
pkg install openldap24-client
cd /usr/local/include/python3.9
ln -s ../<all of the below> .
lber.h
lber_types.h
ldap.h
ldap_cdefs.h
ldap_features.h
ldap_schema.h
ldap_utf8.h
openldap.h
sasl
pip install python-ldap

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