Ubuntu Python "No module named paramiko"

Question

So I'm trying to use Paramiko on Ubuntu with Python 2.7, but import paramiko causes this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named paramiko

The other questions on this site don't help me since I'm new to Ubuntu.

Here are some important commands that I ran to check stuff:

sudo pip install paramiko
pip install paramiko
sudo apt-get install python-paramiko

Paramiko did "install". These are the only commands I used to "install" paramiko. I'm new to Ubuntu, so if I need to run more commands, lay them on me.

which python
/usr/local/bin/python

python -c "from pprint import pprint; import sys; pprint(sys.path);"
['',
 '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

In the python interpreter, I ran help("modules") and Paramiko is not in the list.

two paramiko folders are located in usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.

@DivakarDass, no, I was hoping to avoid virtualenv since I won't be using Ubuntu for too long, just trying to keep it short and simple. — Delliardo, Mar 11 '15 at 16:03
Looks like you have a locally-built installation of Python, which is being executed rather than the system-provided one. Try running `/usr/bin/python` instead. — Colonel Thirty Two, Mar 11 '15 at 16:06
@ColonelThirtyTwo, well, that fixes that, that's interesting. Thanks! Is there a way to get the terminal to run the appropriate python? — Delliardo, Mar 11 '15 at 16:12

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

Short version: You're mixing Ubuntu's packaged version of Python (/usr/bin/python) and a locally built and installed version (/usr/local/bin/python).

Long version:

You used apt-get install python-paramiko to install Ubuntu's official Paramiko package to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.
You used (I assume) Ubuntu's version of pip, which installs to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. (See here.)
You used a locally built version of Python, and because it's locally built, it uses /usr/local/lib/python2.7 instead of /usr/lib/python2.7, and because it doesn't have Debian/Ubuntu customizations, it doesn't check use dist-packages.

Solution: You should be able to add /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages to your /usr/local/bin/python's sys.path, but since you're using Ubuntu, it's easiest to let Ubuntu do the work for you:

Use /usr/bin/python instead of a local version.
Use Ubuntu's packages wherever possible (i.e., use apt-get instead of pip).
Use virtualenv for the rest (to keep a clean separation between Ubuntu-packaged and personally installed modules).

I'd go so far as to uninstall the local version of Python and delete /usr/local/lib/python2.7, to ensure that no further mismatches occur. If you don't want to be that drastic, then you can edit your $PATH to put /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin to run the system version of Python by default.

_"Use virtualenv for the rest (to keep a clean separation between Ubuntu-packaged and personally installed modules)."_ Doesn't Ubuntu PIP install to `/usr/local/`? — Colonel Thirty Two, Mar 11 '15 at 16:30
@ColonelThirtyTwo - Yes, it does. I'm just really paranoid about separating personal modules from systemwide (`/usr` and `/usr/local`) modules, but thanks for the correction. — Josh Kelley, Mar 11 '15 at 16:32

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '15 at 17:29

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Try downloading the zip file from https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko and running this command in the unzipped directory :

python setup.py install

answered Mar 22 '15 at 17:29

khelili miliana · Answer 3 · 2016-05-12T13:55:59.080

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There are two others methodes for add modules in python :

The first :

Download the package.
Create directory and paste the package in it.
Tap in the terminal :
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:path_of_package

The second :

open python interpreter:
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "path_of_package")

edited May 12 '16 at 13:55

answered May 12 '16 at 13:50

khelili miliana

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 12 '18 at 11:48

Try installing only through commands.

Download paramiko package from git using this command: git clone https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko.git
Go to unzipped directory and run export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:<path_to_paramiko>
If you find libffi package not found then run this command: sudo apt-get install libffi6 libffi-dev and If you haven't properly installed the header files and static libraries for python dev then run this command: sudo apt-get install python-dev

Enjoy :)

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 03 '18 at 02:49

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Also, mind the version of python, if the error was reported by python3, then install python3's paramiko.

answered Dec 03 '18 at 02:49

ddwolf

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 08 '19 at 08:48

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If you're using Python 3, type the below command

$ sudo -H pip3 install paramiko --ignore-installed

answered Aug 08 '19 at 08:48

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user8090410 · Answer 7 · 2017-05-31T07:43:38.907

try type pi then tap, this give you this

:$ pi

pic piconv pidstat pinentry-curses ping6

       pip3             pivot_root

pic2graph pidof pinentry ping pinky

        pip3.6

then you type in whereis pip3

$ whereis pip3

pip3: /usr/local/bin/pip3.6 /usr/local/bin/pip3

xg@xx-ppmaster:/xg/scripts/pyth

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/pip3 install paramiko

This should let you install paramiko

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