Pycharm - Python packaging tools not found

ubuntu pycharm python-3.5
Goutham Ganesan picture Goutham Ganesan · Apr 23, 2017 · Viewed 50.9k times · Source

I'm trying to install packages in Pycharm for python3.5 interpreter. It says,

Python packaging tools not found. Install packaging tools.

But when I try to install, It gives this error.

AttributeError: module 'setuptools.dist' has no attribute 'check_specifier'

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.2, Pycharm Community edition 2017.1.1

Answer

niklas picture niklas · Apr 23, 2017

Run this command and you should be able to install the packaging tools in Pycharm:

sudo apt install python3-pip

It's python3-pip, not python-pip if you are using the Python3 interpreter.

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