Running fabric script throws ImportError: No module named fabric.main

Question

I am on Redhat, and when I run any fabric scripts I see the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fab", line 8, in from fabric.main import main ImportError: No module named fabric.main

The file /usr/bin/fab is configured to use python 2.7 (/usr/local/bin/python):

#!/usr/local/bin/python     
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import re import sys

from fabric.main import main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(main())

The result is the same even if I just call fab. Not sure what else I should be configuring. I have not set up a virtualenv for fab. If I must, I will do so.

I installed python 2.7, and then I installed fab as follows:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo /usr/local/bin/python get-pip.py
sudo /usr/local/bin/pip install fab

`/usr/local/bin/pip install fab` probably installed the fabric module executable in `/usr/local/bin/fab` and not `/usr/bin`. Not sure where the `/usr/bin/fab` came from in your situation. — Matthew Schuchard, Jul 13 '16 at 12:06
Thank you, however it seems I do not have a /usr/local/bin/fab either .. — z_blue, Jul 13 '16 at 16:10
However, this did help me find the resolution to my problem (see my answer below) -- so thank you very much! — z_blue, Jul 13 '16 at 17:39
I don't think I actually helped any, but glad you figured out a workaround. — Matthew Schuchard, Jul 13 '16 at 17:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

I ended up doing the following:

Install Python 2.7 in a virtualenv (~/virtualenvs/py2.7) by following the top-rated answer from Is it possible to install another version of Python to Virtualenv? by DTing
Install pip in ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py sudo ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/python2.7 get-pip.py
Install fab in ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin:

sudo ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/pip install fab
For some reason, I still did not have the fab file under ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin, so I just copied the original /usr/bin/fab that was giving me issues to ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/ and edited it to point to the virtualenv python2.7 (~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/python2.7)

Running ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/fab worked, and gave me the following (welcome) error:

Fatal error: Couldn't find any fabfiles!

Remember that -f can be used to specify fabfile path, and use -h for help.

Aborting.

I am content for now -- since fab seems to work. But if anyone has ideas why the actual fab file was not created in the ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/ directory, I am all ears. Thank you!

Running fabric script throws ImportError: No module named fabric.main

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