Python 3.5 is unable to access packages installed with pip3 like django

Question

I have both python 2.7 and python 3.5 installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I have also installed python3-pip to be used for installing external packages to python 3.5.

Using pip3 I have installed django using the following command:

sudo pip3 install django

This command installed the package into the dist-packages directory ar /usr/local/lib/python3.5 on my computer.

I have used similar commands for installing other packages as well.

However when I ran this command after to start a django server :

python3 manage.py runserver

It show this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 8, in <module>
   from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module named 'django'

Also when I start python3 onterminal and type:

import django

It too gives an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'django'

I face similar problems with other python packages I have installed using pip3 like BeautifulSoup, xlrd, xlwt, youtube-dl. I can access none of them from python3.

I should also mention that I use Pycharm for Python development. In that, I can access all of these packages and it uses python3.5 as intepreter which is located at /usr/bin/.

My question is how do I solve?

I have tried using simply

pip3 install django

but that gives the following error:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/rishav/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django'

I have googled this problem and I have not found any viable solution. Please help me resolve this problem.

Answer 1

Run the follwing:

1. as mentioned above, you need to apt-get install python-django or python3-django
2. sudo apt-get install python-pip (or sudo apt-get install python3-pip)
3. sudo apt-get install mysql-server (I would suggest you do not use sqlite3 if you want to work with databases) (THIS STEP IS OPTIONAL!!!!)
4. sudo apt-get install apache2 (for django to run on it)

Basic info:

1. Use django-admin startproject << name >>
2. Modify the django settings to run on the apache server
3. You must be inside the project location to be able to run << python manage.py runserver >>

Answer 2

Well something must have went wrong during that pip3 install. You can also Django like sudo apt-get install python3-django

Cheers [if this helps]