Install and use Hovercraft on Ubuntu 14.10

Question

I am trying to use hovercraft on my Ubuntu 14.10 laptop. This is a python script, and I'm not that familiar with python... So here is what I've done:

• first, I installed hovercraft using sudo pip install hovercraft
• then I tried hovercraft using hovercraft mytest.rst outdir: it ran but led me to errors, and I found that hovercraft is a python 3 only script.
• so, I installed python3-pip using apt: sudo apt-get install python3-pip and installed hovercraft in python3 with sudo pip3 install hovercraft
• but python3 was not my default python interpreter, so I added alias python=python3 to my .bashrc

Now, when I type python -V, I get Python 3.4.2. But... typing hovercraft mytest.rst outdir gives me nothing, as hovercraft is not a known command.

So here is my question: how do I make python 3 scripts installed with pip3 visible in my default classpath ?

(or maybe I have another problem you can point me out :-)

Answer 1

Ok, I found the problem: both pip and pip3 install the executable file in /usr/local/bin. Uninstalling from pip (python2) removes the binary. So I had to uninstall and re-install in pip3 to get things working.