pip error: "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._internal'"
Nov 06, 2018
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Question / Issue:
When running "$ sudo -H pip3 install <python package>" we received the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pip3", line 7, in <module>
from pip._internal import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._internal'
Responses:
Date: Nov. 6, 2018
Author: Mind Chasers
Comment:
A good reference for this issue can be found here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5373
However, for us it seems it was due to us having a conflict between a local pip3 install and a system installed python3:
$ which pip3
/usr/local/bin/pip3
$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3
We removed /usr/local/bin/pip3 and pip3 worked fine (again).
