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Okay so I'm trying to set up a virtualenv (on legacy server btw) (python3.6.9, ubuntu 18.10), but whenever I try to install packages for it I get

pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.

This is the case for pip, pip3, pip3.6, python -m pip, python3 -m pip and python3.6 -m pip. I have tried reinstalling python, pip, virtualenv and other stuff, but it seems to persist whatever I try.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Cesar van der Poel
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  • Does this answer your question? ["ssl module in Python is not available" when installing package with pip3](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41328451/ssl-module-in-python-is-not-available-when-installing-package-with-pip3) – David Jan 21 '21 at 11:01
  • Tried the comments under questions and all the answers that didnt need OSX, windows/anaconda or CentOS, and they didn't work =/ – Cesar van der Poel Jan 21 '21 at 11:23

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Alright, so I found something that worked. The ssl was apparently more broken than I expected, but thanks to the fact that we had a second server which did function normally, I was able to copy the file (for those interested: cp /usr/local/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/_ssl.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so tmp, then connect SFTP Net drive to extract tmp, connect to other server and insert tmp, then cp tmp /usr/local/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/_ssl.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so) and that made it function (almost) normally (small warnings aside).

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