pip python not installing modules on linux

Question

I have been trying to install win32api module using pip install win32api but whenever I try to, it gives me an error message:

Downloading/unpacking win32api Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/ Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement win32api Cleaning up... No distributions at all found for win32api Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

My repositories are alright. Help me out here.

By the way, I'm using kali linux 2.0 32 bit version

Answer 1

Assuming you are using Windows, you need to get this package from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

This library is not available in Pip since it's Windows specific (won't work on Linux or OS X).

Answer 2

You need to add the repositories to sources.list

Type this to open the file:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

And add these lines:

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib

Save and run:

apt --fix-broken install
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade 
apt-get install python3-pip

And type:

pip --version