no module named zlib - python

First, please bear with me. I have hard time telling others my problem and this is a long thread...
I am using pythonbrew to run multiple versions of python in Ubuntu 10.10.
For installing pythonbrew and how it works, please refers to this link below
http://www.howopensource.com/2011/05/how-to-install-and-manage-different-versions-of-python-in-linux/
After reading a couple stackoverflow threads, I finally found the file called Setup under this directory: ~/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/config
In this Setup file I see
# Andrew Kuchling's zlib module.
# This require zlib 1.1.3 (or later).
# See http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
# zlib zlibmodule.c -I$(prefix)/include -L$(exec_prefix)/lib -lz
I uncommented the last line, then I ran python -v again. However, I received the same error when I tried import zlib, so I guess I have to do something to install zlib into the lib.
But I am clueless about what I need to do. Can someone please direct me in the right direction??? Thank you very much!
I am doing this because I want to use different version of python in different virtualenv I created.
When I did virtualenv -p python2.7 I received no module named zlib.
jwxie518#jwxie518-P5E-VM-DO:~$ virtualenv -p python2.7 --no-site-packages testenv
Running virtualenv with interpreter /home/jwxie518/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.7.1/bin/python2.7
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 17, in <module>
import zlib
ImportError: No module named zlib
EDIT
I have to install 2.7.1 by appending --force.
I am developing Django, and I need some of these missing modules, for example sqlite3, and to create my virtualenv I definitely need zlib. If I just use the system default (2.6.6), I have no problem.
To do this with system default, all I need to do is
virtualenv --no-site-packages testenv
Thanks!
(2nd edit)
I installed 3.2 also and I tested it without problem, so I guess my problem comes down to how to install the missing module(s).
jwxie518#jwxie518-P5E-VM-DO:~$ virtualenv -p python3.2 testenv
Running virtualenv with interpreter /home/jwxie518/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-3.2/bin/python3.2
New python executable in testenv/bin/python3.2
Also creating executable in testenv/bin/python
Installing distribute..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.
jwxie518#jwxie518-P5E-VM-DO:~$ virtualenv -p python3.2 --no-site-packages testenv
Running virtualenv with interpreter /home/jwxie518/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-3.2/bin/python3.2
New python executable in testenv/bin/python3.2
Also creating executable in testenv/bin/python
Installing distribute..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.

Sounds like you need to install the devel package for zlib, probably want to do something like
# ubuntu 12,14,16,18,20.04+
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
Instead of using python-brew you might want to consider just compiling by hand, it's not very hard. Just download the source, and configure, make, make install. You'll want to at least set --prefix to somewhere, so it'll get installed where you want.
./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7 + other options
make
make install
You can check what configuration options are available with ./configure --help and see what your system python was compiled with by doing:
python -c "import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_config_var('CONFIG_ARGS')"
The key is to make sure you have the development packages installed for your system, so that Python will be able to build the zlib, sqlite3, etc modules. The python docs cover the build process in more detail: http://docs.python.org/using/unix.html#building-python.

By default when you configuring Python source, zlib module is disabled, so you can enable it using option --with-zlib when you configure it. So it becomes
./configure --with-zlib

For the case I met, I found there are missing modules after make. So I did the following:
install zlib-devel
make and install python again.

After running configure, you can change the config option in the file Modules/Setup as below:
zlib zlibmodule.c -I$(prefix)/include -L$(exec_prefix)/lib -lz
Or you can uncomment the zlib line as-is.

I had a lot of problems making a virtual environment (venv) as described in the tensorflow installation guide.
Most of the commands listed in this post didn't help me either so, if this is also your case this is what I did:
pip3 install --user pipenv
pip install virtualenv
Installs the dependencies to create a virtual environment
mkdir myenv
Makes a new directory called myenv but you can call it whatever you want e.g. mynewenv
cd myenv
Or whatever you call your directory so: cd [your_directory_name]
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv
Creates a virtual environment called venv in the folder myenv. You can call your virtual env whatever you like e.g. vitualenv [v_env_name]
source ./venv/bin/activate
Activates the virtual environment. Note that if you choose a different v. env. name your commands should be written as such source ./[v_env_name]/bin/activate
deactivate
Deactivates the virtual environment.
Note: I am using Python 3.6.6 & Ubuntu 18.04
source for the commands

After you install the missing zlib dev package you can also use pythonbrew to uninstall and then reinstall the version of python you wanted and it seems like it picks up the new package to compile to correct abilities. This way you can keep using pythonbrew and don't have to do the compilation yourself (though it isn't that difficult)

Similar to the answers here on CentOS or RHEL run
sudo yum install zlib-devel
The --with-zlib solutions shown here seem to be missing headers that Python 3.9 and up needs to link (in my case).

The easiest solution I found, is given on python.org devguide:
sudo apt-get build-dep python3.6
If that package is not available for your system, try reducing the minor version until you find a package that is available in your system’s package manager.
I tried explaining details, on my blog.

My objective was to create a new Django project from the command line in Ubuntu, like so:
django-admin.py startproject mysite
I have python2.7.5 installed. I got this error:
ImportError: No module named zlib
For hours I could not find a solution, until now!
Here is a link to the solution -
http://doc.biblissima-condorcet.fr/loris-setup-guide-ubuntu-debian
I followed and executed instruction in Section 1.1 and it is working perfectly! It is an easy solution.

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Permission error [Errno13]Permission denied while installing robotframework-SikuliLibrary

I have a Linux machine with Ubuntu rel 20.10, I'm using the robot framework with Eclipse. I have a problem with a Sikulilibrary
doesnt'work. I tried to pip install robotframework-SikuliLibrary,
But i have this error
> Exception : Initializing test library Sikulilibrary with no arguments
> failed:Permission error[Errno13]Permission denied
I tried to install Selenium library all is ok,do you have any questions about this issue?
Robotframework 3.2
Python 3.8.6
Thanks a lot
pip wants to install the package in your system, and you don't have the right to write here. But... Do NOT use sudo with pip. This will install system-wide and can break your installation or a package can overwrite this one.
Use virtualenv, or pipenv.
E.g. To use virtualenv:
cd your-project
python -mvenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
# and then
pip install XXX
You will need to call source .venv/bin/activate anytime you want to work and launch your project. The behavior is to change the installation path to a local path (and not your system).
Or, like said #BIOS in https://stackoverflow.com/a/66785567/1472048 comment, use your "home" installation with "--user" option to install in ~/.local/lib.
Make sure that you are adding the module in the correct Python installation (your Python 3.8 and not the system Python) and that you are installing in your home directory. This way no special permission will be needed.
pip3 install --user robotframework-SikuliLibrary
The above will install the package in the user site-packages directory of the current (running) Python. In my case it is ~/.local/lib/Python3.9/site-packages, which is already in my PATH. It should be the case for you too, so you should be good to go.
Otherwise, if you have problems like ModuleNotFoundError just find your site-packages directory with:
python3 -m site
You will have it under USER_SITE. Take note of it and add it to PATH following help from this question.
Otherwise, like #Metal3D said, you could use a virtual environment

How to install a Python package inside a virtual environment with Pip (OS X)

Edit:
I'm going to close this question as the reason its happening is different from my original assumption, and it's clearer to ask the question anew:
Pip installs packages in the wrong directory with virtualenv
The accepted answer doesn't directly answer the original question, but is a very useful overview.
Based on discussion below the issue is that even after
$ source ~/PycharmProjects/Practice/venv/bin/activate
$ pip install numpy
numpy is installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
What could the reason for this be?
Original:
Using Python on OS X via Homebrew:
I've been trying much of the day to sort this out but either I get a must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both error, or the package I try to install goes into totally the wrong place:
$ pip3 --version
pip 18.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip (python 3.7)
$ cd venv
$ pip3 install numpy
..... [snip with following error:]
"must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both")
Using this hint
$ pip3 install numpy -t .
Then I get a new error,
`Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/.../pip-install-0fvveq3v/package/'
Searching around SO gives various possibilities involving pip install setuptools. but pip install throws the above error or installs in the wrong place. i.e. the solution involves something that's causing the error in the first place.
I tried to use the Python.org installer but it didn't install pip at all. (The custom installer showed the option checked but with size zero).
An introductory overview is available in this nice tutorial. Here is a good summary with more detail. But, if you renamed or moved the virtual env dir after its creation, it could break it. Create a new one from scratch: $ cd ~/PycharmProjects; python3 -mvenv newenv ; Activate: $ source newenv/bin/activate ; Install something: $ pip install colorama (same as pip3 install only if venv activated); Check: ls ~/PycharmProjects/newenv/lib/python3*/site-packages ; Deactivate: $ deactivate
Then you could try this solution for Pycharm: how to associate a virtual environment with a python project in pycharm. PyCharm indeed comes bundled with virtualenv which could have been customized, please look into Pycharm-specific resources: creating virtual environments and installing packages in Pycharm.
If you have installed PyPI's mainstream virtualenv, by default it will create new environments with the python interpreter that virtualenv was installed with. But it's possible to specify an alternate Python Interpreter upon a new env creation: $ virtualenv -p python3.7 newenvname
Regarding the error DistutilsOptionError: must supply either home or prefix - please check this and this for solutions. Homebrew'ed mappings between python and pip are described here. The normal pip install --user is disabled in homebrewed Python, but there are workarounds. MacOS system Python doesn't provide pip, but it can installed, reinstalled or upgraded for any specific python version manually. Original non-brewed installers are also available for all Python versions: https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/
By default there's no pip.conf, but it can be created by hand to customize things. All possible pip.conf locations (per-user, per-venv, and global/system-wide, and how they override each other) are listed here. If someone faces an issue, they could use pip config list command to see their active configuration, or locate pip.conf and find it.
Finally, you may want to ensure you aren't using pip against macOS' system python. Shell commands such as $ brew info python, which pip, which pip3, pip3 -V, which python3 can help you see what you actually use. Since the macOS default $PATH used to be /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin, stock macOS binaries (including python) may take precedence over some homebrew'ed installations (including python). If so, a custom PATH could be exported via the ~/.bashrc if required.

virtualenv does not include pip

I am trying to create a virtual environment using virtualenv on Mac OS X El Capitan. I have installed Python 2.7.11 with brew, which includes pip, wheel and setuptools by default.
Hovewer, when I try to install virtualenv following instructions in the documentation or from any other resource, I get several problems:
virtualenv executable is not placed in /usr/local/bin after pip makes its job, so I need to ln -s it by hand (it may indicate, that there is something wrong with installation on this step).
After I run virtualenv venv, it creates new environment, catches Python 2.7.11 from brew-installation, but: there is no pip inside bin folder. That means, that if I try which pip, having venv activated, it returns a global position of pip — /usr/local/bin/pip, not /path/to/venv/bin/pip.
As a consequence, installing packages inside venv uses global pip and installs them to a global sites-packages, not that inside venv, and it's quite the opposite of what environment should do.
Could you please suggest what may be wrong and how to fix it?
EDIT: The thing to mention is that I used to have other versions of Python installed on my computer, which I have recently deleted as it is described in this answer. Maybe it causes the issue, and some more thorough cleaning is needed.
Try removing or renaming the .pydistutils.cfg file in your home directory, e.g. by renaming with mv ~/.pydistutils.cfg ~/oldpydistutils.cfg
I'm putting a detailed answer here to help others, but the original credit goes to this answer. If you know what specifically in .pydistutils.cfg was causing the problem, let me know!
I was having the same issue: my virtual environments were created without a local copy of pip, although they had a local copy of python. This meant that using $ pip from within the virtual environment installed to the global package location, and was not visible to the environment's python.
How I diagnosed this on my machine:
I create a virtualenvironment with $ virtualenv env
Activated the virtual environment with $ source env/bin/activate
Checked python location: run (env)$ which python with output /Users/<username>/env/bin/python (as expected)
Checked pip location: run (env)$ which pip with output /usr/local/bin/pip (NOT expected)
To check where our packages are going, we can try to install a package in the virtual environment:
Try to install a package: (env)$ pip install HTTPServer which succeeds
Try to run the package: (env)$ python -m HTTPServer which fails with error /Users/emunsing/env/bin/python: No module named HTTPServer
To double-check, try to install again: (env)$ pip install HTTPServer which produces Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): HTTPServer in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Double-checking, we see that there's no Pip in the environment's /bin folder:
$ ls env/bin
activate activate.fish python python2
activate.csh activate_this.py python-config python2.7
And so while the system finds the local python version, it can't find a local pip to use and traverses the $PATH. It ended up using pip from /usr/local/bin, leaving me unable to install packages locally to the virtual environment.
Here's what I tried:
- Reinstalling python brew uninstall python followed by brew upgrade and brew install python --build-from-source
- Installing pip using the get-pip.py command as described in the Pip documentation
Here's what I ruled out:
- I was not using sudo pip ... which caused similar problems in this other question and haven't done so at any time on this Python/pip install
- My virtual environment didn't show a local installation of pip, as was the case in these similar questions: This one for Windows, This one for Mac OS X.
Ultimately, I found that eliminating the ~/.pydistutils.cfg file fixed the problem, allowing for fresh virtual environments that had their own local pip. The contents of my ~/.pydistutils.cfg file were:
[global]
verbose=1
[install]
install-scripts=$HOME/bin
[easy_install]
install-scripts=$HOME/bin
Simply renaming the ~/.pydistutils.cfg file appears to fix the problem: it seems that although this file was created by the homebrew installation, some settings in this file may be incompatible with virtualenv. While removing this file hasn't had any bad effects on my system, you may need to use the --user flag when installing packages with pip to the global environment (e.g. $ pip install --user HTTPServer). Here are more details on .pydistutils.cfg if you want to work on tailoring it for your needs.
virtualenv executable is not placed in /usr/local/bin after pip makes its job, so I need to ln -s it by hand (it may indicate, that there is something wrong with installation on this step).
Don't do that. That will only hide the bug and not solve the problem. Here's a short guide how to debug this kind of issues:
Start with which -a python. The first path you see should be /usr/local/bin/python, if not check your PATH variable.
Next, check which -a pip. Again the first path should be /usr/local/bin/pip. If not, run python -m ensurepip and recheck.
Now install virtualenv using pip install virtualenv, after that check the output of which -a virtualenv. The first path should be /usr/local/bin/virtualenv, if not check the output of env |grep PYTHON for unexpected environment variables.
Finally check the output of virtualenv --version to make sure you have the latest version.
I had the issue when running virtualenv: "ImportError: No module named pip."
My solution was to downgrade virtualenv. I had 16.2.0.
pip uninstall virtualenv
pip install virtualenv==15.1.0
Just hit same issue on Linux. Seems like there are multiple causes of this issue, but for me answer was to remove ~/.pip/.
Details: I had this in my .pip/pip.conf for some reason I can't remember:
$ cat ~/.pip/pip.conf
[global]
use_https = True
index = https://pypi.python.org/pypi
prefix = /home/sam/local/
and was using local versions on Python, Pip installed at ~/local/. For some reason virtualenv installed pip must pick up prefix = /home/sam/local/ setting and pip was being installed there.
Try this: sudo apt install pythonV.v-distutils.
In my case V.v == 3.8.
This worked for me.

'bz2 is module not available' when installing Pandas with pip in python virtual environment

I am going through this post Numpy, Scipy, and Pandas - Oh My!, installing some python packages, but got stuck at the line for installing Pandas:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/pydata/pandas#egg=pandas
I changed 'wesm' to 'pydata' for the latest version, and the only other difference to the post is that I'm using pythonbrew.
I found this post, related to the error, but where is the Makefile for bz2 mentioned in the answer? Is there another way to resolve this problem?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
You need to build python with BZIP2 support.
Install the following package before building python:
Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS: yum install bzip2-devel
Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
Extract python tarball. Then
configure;
make;
make install
Install pip using the new python.
Alternative:
Install a binary python distribution using yum or apt, that was build with BZIP2 support.
See also: ImportError: No module named bz2 for Python 2.7.2
I spent a lot of time on the internet and got a partial answer everywhere. Here is what you need to do to make it work. Follow every step.
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev Thanks to Freek Wiekmeijer for this.
Now you also need to build python with bz2. Previously installed python won't work. For that do following:
Download stable python version from https://www.python.org/downloads/source/ then extract that Gzipped source tarball file. You can use wget https://python-tar-file-link.tgz to download and tar -xvzf python-tar-file.tgz to extract it in current directory
Go inside extracted folder then run following commands one at a time
./configure
make
make install
This will build a python file with bz2 that you previously installed
Since this python doesn't have pip installed, idea was to create a virtual environment with above-built python then install pandas using previously installed pip
You will see python file in the same directory. Just create a virtual environment.
./python -m env myenv (create myenv in the same directory or outside it's your choice)
source myenv/bin/activate (activate virtual environment)
pip install pandas (install pandas in the current environment)
That's it. Now with this environment, you should be able to use pandas without error.
pyenv
I noticed that installing Python using source takes a long time (I am doing it on i7 :/ ); especially the make and make test...
A simpler and shorter solution was to install another version of Python (I did Python 3.7.8) using pyenv, install it using these steps.
It not only saved the problem of using multiple Python instances on the same system but also maintain my virtual environments without virtualenvwrapper (which turned buggy on my newly setup ubuntu-20.04).

How to use Python virtualenv

The scenario is: I am on Ubuntu 11 which comes with Python 2.7, I want to run Mozilla JetPack which supports Python 2.5/2.6 and Google App Engine which only supports Python 2.5.
Read that its not a good idea to remove Python 2.7 as Ubuntu maybe using it. So the correct way is to use virtualenv. But I am quite lost using it. I installed Python 2.5 in /usr/local/python25 following this guide
I tried
jiewmeng#JM:/usr/local/python25/bin$ ./python --version
Python 2.5.5
jiewmeng#JM:/usr/local/python25/bin$ ./python virtualenv /works/tmp/test
./python: can't open file 'virtualenv': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
then the below works but I will be using Python 2.7
jiewmeng#JM:/usr/local/python25/bin$ virtualenv /works/tmp/test
New python executable in /works/tmp/test/bin/python
Installing distribute.................................................................................................................................................................................done.
jiewmeng#JM:/usr/local/python25/bin$ cd /works/tmp/test/bin
jiewmeng#JM:/works/tmp/test/bin$ ls
activate activate_this.py easy_install easy_install-2.7 pip python
jiewmeng#JM:/works/tmp/test/bin$ ./python --version
Python 2.7.1+
Also, how do I then run Mozilla JetPack or Google App Engine with this version of Python? Sorry I am new to Python (and Linux/Ubuntu)
Outline:
First cd to /usr/local/python25/bin
Download setuptools for Python2.5 (setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg)
Install it (sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg).
Now install pip (easy_install pip).
Install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper using pip (pip install v... etc.).
Configure WORKON_HOME for virtualenv wrapper to work (export WORKON_HOME = $HOME/.virtualenvs). You can use any other directory you want (not just $HOME/.virtualenvs). Just make sure to use the full path.
Now create a virtualenv (mkvirtualenv foobar).
Switch to the new virtualenv (workon foobar).
Now install GAE, JetPack and whatever you want using pip install blah
Why did your install not work?
Looks like you did not install virtualenv for Python2.5. Hence this will not work.
jiewmeng#JM:/usr/local/python25/bin$ ./python virtualenv /works/tmp/test
You can check by running ls command in that directory. I suspect you won't find virtualenv file there.
However this worked for you.
jiewmeng#JM:/usr/local/python25/bin$ virtualenv /works/tmp/test
Because it is using the virtualenv file for system default Python2.7. You can check which virtualenv and opening the virtualenv script. You'll see that the #! will point to system default python.
So you need to install the easy_install and pip for Python 2.5 before you can create virtualenv for Python 2.5. Just follow the steps outlined above.
You don't need to do anything fancy outside the virtualenv wrapper. Just use the --python=python2.5 flag (check out the man page for virtualenv form more). It does not matter what version you install it with, you just have to select the right executable for python in the virtual environment.
e.g. mkvirtualenv --python=python2.5 --distribute python25 if the python flag fails, either add a symlink (ln -s) to python25 in your $PATH or use the full path name on the python flag.
Also, default for multiple python installations is to have, for all 'altinstall' versions, a separate python and easy_install. So, for example: python2.5 ,easy_install-2.5 ,python2.6, easy_install-2.6 etc.

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