I prefer generally to use pip
rather than apt-get
for installing python modules, as I prefer to separate the packages for Python development from general system packages. However, it seems as though pip
won't work for me. I want to install Django, and when I used sudo pip install Django
, the installation went through successfully. However, when I opened my Python interpreter REPL, I could not successfully import django
- I received an ImportError
that Django
could not be found. On the other hand, upon running sudo apt install python-django
, the installation was successful again, and this time, I could import Django.
So why does this happen? With the pip
installation, for some reason, Django was not in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
, which is where modules installed with pip go, but django-admin
was installed and usable, proving that pip
must have installed Django. On the other hand, after installing Django with apt
/apt-get
, Django folders were existing in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
, where any modules I install with the system package manager are found. I don't know what else I can do to troubleshoot this issue - please tell me if there is anything I am missing and should add.
EDIT
I also tried easy_install
, which installed to my Python 3.5, and then pip3
, and both allowed importing from the Python 3 interpreter. So why doesn't pip
for Python 2.7 work in installing Django? I tried another module with pip
for 2.7, and everything worked fine. This is just with Django.