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Omnomnious
Omnomnious

Reputation: 345

Can't use pip on one machine to install package that I successfully installed on another

I have been trying to install dependencies for a library on a colleagues Virtual Machine which is running XUbuntu 16.04. I have been able to install these dependencies on my own machine without a problem, however when attempting to install these dependencies using PIP on hers we get the following error: 

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement <package name> == <package version>

(where package name and package version are the corresponding details for the specific package that pip gets stuck on). The package it gets this error for is called catfish. I was able to install this package on my computer, although I can't find the package using pip3 when I search. I am using Python 3.5.2 but Python 2.7 is also installed on my virtual machine.

I have tried a few things to figure out why this is the case but have not been able to reach a result. I strongly suspect that if I understood how exactly pip works I would be able to solve this problem. If anyone has any tips on what I could do or where to look to get to the bottom of this, it would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 267

Answers (1)

GAD3R
GAD3R

Reputation: 4635

The catfish can be installed through apt , it is not avalaible through pip

To check the availability through pip :

pip search package_name

To check the availability through apt:

sudo apt-cache policy package_name

e,g:

sudo apt-cache policy catfish

sample output:

catfish - File searching tool which is configurable via the command line

Upvotes: 1

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