pywifi can't be installed on python

Question

I tried to install pywifi through pip in python but the system says:

You are using pip version 6.1.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip'.
command. Collecting pywifi Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywifi (from versions: ) .
No matching distribution found for pywifi

So I'm wondering how I should get it work?

Try upgrading pip using 'pip install --upgrade pip' so that it can find pywifi ? — Sajid, Apr 26 '18 at 06:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '18 at 06:19

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Upgrade You're pip through: pip install --upgrade pip

check which version pip running : pip -V

after that install pywifi: pip install pywifi

if above commands wouldn't work download the source file from here pywifi switch to downloaded directory through cd, run cmd: pip install pywifi-1.1.10-py3-none-any.whl here is the link to install .whl file How do I install a Python package with a .whl file?

may be it would help for you're problem.

answered Apr 26 '18 at 06:19

ShivaGuntuku

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I was informed "pywifi-1.1.10-py3-none-any.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform." – user9583010 Apr 30 '18 at 02:31
Do you sucessfully install pywifi? – user9583010 Apr 30 '18 at 02:32
yes, i'm able to install through pip, .whl file format and i'm using ubuntu16,pip 10.0.1 – ShivaGuntuku Apr 30 '18 at 02:35
What version of python are you using? – user9583010 May 01 '18 at 03:24
i'm using python3, trying to install on python2.7 but getting error (No matching distribution found for pywifi) – ShivaGuntuku May 01 '18 at 03:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '18 at 06:25

Yes, nowadays installaing pywifi via pip is problem. Upgrading pip is also not an option.

(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch se-toolkit]$ pip --version 
pip 10.0.1 
(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch se-toolkit]$ pip install pywifi
Collecting pywifi
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywifi (from versions: 1.0.2.linux-x86_64)
No matching distribution found for pywifi

I would suggest to clone (or download the source) it into your python's site-packages directory, then install it.

(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch se-toolkit]$ cd lib/python2.7/site-packages/
(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch site-packages]$ git clone https://github.com/awkman/pywifi.git
(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch site-packages]$ cd pywifi/
(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch pywifi]$ pip install .
...
Installing collected packages: comtypes, pywifi
Successfully installed comtypes-1.1.4 pywifi-1.1.10

then use it.

(se-toolkit) [ziya@ziya2018arch pywifi]$ python
 Python 2.7.14 (default, Apr 16 2018, 20:08:15) 
[GCC 7.3.1 20180406] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pywifi
>>>

pywifi can't be installed on python

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