Python Cassandra driver not installed, or not on PYTHONPATH, when I run cqlsh command

Question

server detail: Linux version 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 (builder@kbuilder.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) (GCC) )

cassandra version: 3.6.0

Python 2.7.6

I use this document for helping (http://imti.co/post/152084743878/cassandra-install-cassandra-39-on-centos-6x)

I follow all the steps of above helping doc, In the last step of "cqlsh"

when I run command cqlsh getting error.

Python Cassandra driver not installed, or not on PYTHONPATH.

You might try "pip install cassandra-driver".

Python: /usr/local/bin/python

Error: can't decompress data; zlib not available

I installed python driver and zlib also but still getting same error.

Can anyone help me to fix this issue. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Download cqlsh-astra-20201104-bin.tar

Extract cqlsh-astra-20201104-bin.tar

Go to \cqlsh-astra-20201104-bin\cqlsh-astra\zipfiles

Extract six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any and cassandra-driver-internal-only-3.24.0

Copy six.py file and \cassandra folder to \cqlsh-astra-20201104-bin\cqlsh-astra\bin

Run python cqlsh.py --version

Answer 2

I had similar issues on CentOS. Please check the step#4 here