Importing Wand in Python Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, Python and have never used imported anything in Python before. My Ubuntu system has Python2.7, 3 and 3.4 installed. I'm trying to start working with Wand for an assignment. Using this documentation from Wand website I installed MagickWand and Wand using (sudo)

$ apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
$ pip install Wand

Now when I try to run the Python script, error-

Traceback (most recent call): 
File "PTI.PY", line 2, in <module>
    from wand.image import Image
ImportError: No module named wand.image

This looks a path or some other configuration error to me, how do I fix this? I looked another similar question in which there was one answer (not marked as solution though) which suggested using virtualenv butI'm not sure if I should try that method. Any help is appreciated.

Edit- Since I cant post a comment yet, I did not use sudo with "pip install Wand" and "pip3 install Wand" says "The program 'pip3' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install python3-pip"

Edit 2- So I tried installing using pip3 and pip again, failed with the error, "could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wand': Permission denied" and realized that Wand was never configured.

So my question now is, how to provide correct permissions? Or should I look into the virtualenv method.

module didn't install correctly ... for install a package using pip don't use `sudo`. also you can test `pip3 install Wand` — Arash Hatami, Jan 15 '16 at 11:22

Vijesh Venugopal · Answer 1 · 2016-07-19T10:14:03.630

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The issue will be resolved with the below installation:

$ apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
$ pip install Wand

Also, please refer the updated version of wand: wand installation

edited Jul 19 '16 at 10:14

answered Jul 18 '16 at 06:31

Vijesh Venugopal

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 27 '16 at 06:47

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sudo apt-get install python-wand

edited Jun 27 '16 at 06:47

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answered Jun 27 '16 at 02:14

KillerKiwi

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 16 '16 at 19:03

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So I figured it out myself, basically the error- "could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wand': Permission denied" was the problem here. I simply reinstalled Wand by using

sudo pip install Wand

answered Jan 16 '16 at 19:03

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Importing Wand in Python Ubuntu 14.04

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