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Hello I have trouble understanding packages manager such as apt pip pip3

I am trying to automate shell command with the use of fabric3 library

I am following a book which tells me to write the following shell command pip install fabric3

My fabfile.py contains f-strings which are working on python3 only

when I do pip list I see Fabric3 (1.14.post1) so I am assuming that the package is successfully installed, yet when I run my fab, I get fab not found, and command line is telling me to sudo apt install fabric

But doing so is useless, because fabric is working only with python2.7

Basically I have thought of two possible solutions to my problem :
1- Trying to make the fab command to use python3.6 instead of python2.7 ? But I don't know how to do that ...
2- Deleting Fabric, and keeping Fabric3, but for some reason, I get this 'fab' not found and I don't understand why

I have read the documentation but It is really obscur, I find no answer to my issue

Any help will be greatly appreciated, Thanks

Update1:

So when I run pip list

asn1crypto (0.24.0)
attrs (17.4.0)
Automat (0.6.0)
bcrypt (3.1.7)
blinker (1.4)
certifi (2018.1.18)
cffi (1.13.2)
chardet (3.0.4)
click (6.7)
cloud-init (19.2)
colorama (0.3.7)
command-not-found (0.3)
configobj (5.0.6)
constantly (15.1.0)
cryptography (2.8)
distro-info (0.18ubuntu0.18.04.1)
Fabric3 (1.14.post1)
httplib2 (0.9.2)
hyperlink (17.3.1)
idna (2.6)
incremental (16.10.1)
Jinja2 (2.10)
jsonpatch (1.16)
jsonpointer (1.10)
jsonschema (2.6.0)
keyring (10.6.0)
keyrings.alt (3.0)
language-selector (0.1)
MarkupSafe (1.0)
netifaces (0.10.4)
oauthlib (2.0.6)
PAM (0.4.2)
paramiko (2.7.1)
pip (9.0.1)
pyasn1 (0.4.2)
pyasn1-modules (0.2.1)
pycparser (2.19)
pycrypto (2.6.1)
pygobject (3.26.1)
PyJWT (1.5.3)
PyNaCl (1.3.0)
pyOpenSSL (17.5.0)
pyserial (3.4)
python-apt (1.6.4)
python-debian (0.1.32)
pyxdg (0.25)
PyYAML (3.12)
requests (2.18.4)
requests-unixsocket (0.1.5)
SecretStorage (2.3.1)
service-identity (16.0.0)
setuptools (39.0.1)
six (1.13.0)
ssh-import-id (5.7)
systemd-python (234)
Twisted (17.9.0)
ufw (0.36)
unattended-upgrades (0.1)
urllib3 (1.22)
wheel (0.30.0)
zope.interface (4.3.2)

Fabric3 is correctly installed

Then, I run this command to deploy my code on server : fab deploy:host=xxx@yyy where xxx is username
and yyy is domain name

I get the following error : Command 'fab' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install fabric

NOTE: I tried this command update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.6 10 found on this topic Unable to set default python version to python3 in ubuntu

and which python stills points to /usr/bin/python

I have found that I have /usr/bin/python3.6 Do you think if I manage to have the which python pointing to /usr/bin/python3.6 my issue will be solved?

  • Run this: `which python` in your terminal to see which python version you are using. Also which OS - it sounds like linux? – Philip Jan 05 '20 at 14:31
  • Thanks for your answer ```which python``` points to ```/usr/bin/python``` Yes Linux –  Jan 05 '20 at 14:40
  • I did try a ```alias python=python3``` as I was trying to use ```python3``` as default python version –  Jan 05 '20 at 14:42
  • Could you update the post with the content of your script, and also how you run it. – Philip Jan 05 '20 at 14:49
  • Yes, it is updated –  Jan 06 '20 at 15:23
  • Could you try to start `python` from the terminal, then `import fabric`, does that work? If not I'm suspecting that the version of python that you start is not the correct. – Philip Jan 07 '20 at 14:43

1 Answers1

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First of all fabric3 is unauthorized fork of fabric as stated here:

unfortunately, the fabric3 entry on PyPI is an unauthorized fork of Fabric 1.x which we do not control. Once modern Fabric gets up to 3.x, 4.x etc, we’ll likely continue distributing it via both fabric and fabric2 for convenience; there will never be any official fabric3, fabric4 etc.

In other words, fabric2 is purely there to help users of 1.x cross the 2.0 “major rewrite” barrier; future major versions will not be large rewrites and will only have small sets of backward incompatibilities.

Source

  1. Please be aware that you have two versions of Python installed on your system. python2.7 and python3.6. When you call pip install PACKAGE_NAME it invokes by default the pip associated with ptyhon2.7. To make sure which one is used type the following command pip --version. I guess it will return something like this pip x.x.x from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7). Thus, you have to install pip for python3.6 on your system. Please notice that you have then to use pip3 instead of pip.

  2. Uninstall fabri3 by executing the following command: pip uninstall fabric3

  3. Install fabric2 using newly installed pip3 install fabric>=2.4.0
  4. Run fab deploy from the directory where you have your deploy script. Don't forget to give the name deploy to your function which is responsible for the deploy like this:
    from fabric import Connection as connection, task

    @task
    def deploy(ctx):
        with connection(host=host, user=user) as c:
             c.run('pwd')
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