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kyouanon

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Registered: 2019-06-27

Posts: 7

Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

So this problem started when i was trying to do pacman -Syu i got "file already in system" on python3, So after a bit of googling i thought i understood the problem then i proceeded to remove this directory: "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages" and that fucked everything up.

After "researching" i found out that it was a package conflicting problem and i should have used pacman for my pywal and setuptools.
If there's no easy way to fix this then how i can just nuke all my python stuff and reinstall everything? this is a new Arch install and the only packages are probably pywal and setuptools(?).

Here's the output of using the pywal command btw:
ab@ab ~> wal -a 30 -i "/home/ab/Downloads/a.png"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wal", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3241, in <module>
    @_call_aside
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3225, in _call_aside
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3254, in _initialize_master_working_set
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 583, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 900, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 786, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pywal==3.3.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application
ab@ab ~>

Last edited by kyouanon (2019-06-27 15:12:54)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,423

Re: Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

Run pip uninstall on the packages in question and reinstall them from the repo packages.

kyouanon

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Registered: 2019-06-27

Posts: 7

Re: Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

Run pip uninstall on the packages in question and reinstall them from the repo packages.

i get the same error while using pip anything

ab@ab ~> pip uninstall pywal
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==19.0.3', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2843, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2434, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2440, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.urllib3.exceptions import DependencyWarning
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._vendor.urllib3'
ab@ab ~>

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,423

Re: Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

O wait you removed the entire directory? Well yes reinstall your python stuff. But do so using pacman packages, and never run sudo pip install anything ever. pip hase a --user flag for local packages. If you still have conflicting file messages, follow the procedure in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … )%22_error (you might also want to run

pacman -Qkk

to identify packages that got broken as a result of this action and need a reinstall)

Also please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags for pasting command outputs.

Last edited by V1del (2019-06-27 13:57:03)

kyouanon

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Registered: 2019-06-27

Posts: 7

Re: Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

Thx i was just looking for a way to format code text, so i have uninstalled pip packages and used pacman instead but when i tried to install pywal using it gave me an error that the wal directory exists so i used

sudo pacman -S python-pywal --force

and everything worked, i heard that using --force like this is wrong is that correct?

Last edited by kyouanon (2019-06-27 14:45:29)

ewaller

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Re: Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

i heard that using --force like this is wrong is that correct?

That is what it is for.  But, it is a tool -- much like a chainsaw -- you had better know what you are doing.  In this case, you are probably okay.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Error while using any python/pip commands [Solved]

It is generally considered unsafe yes, since you did execute it on a single package installation the fallout shouldn't be all that bad, however the link I posted contains a "safer" way to specify known/needed overrides without putting other paths into jeopardy.