Paramiko not recognised by Python 3

Question

I have to use a script written in Python 3 which requires paramiko .

I installed paramiko by doing:

pip install paramiko

and got:

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): paramiko in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Requirement already satisfied (use
--upgrade to upgrade): pycrypto>=2.1,!=2.4 in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from paramiko) Cleaning up...

I tried executing import paramiko for Python and Python 3 and it did not work for Python 3, as given below:

Python:

Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import paramiko
>>> 

Python 3:

Python 3.4.3 (default, Oct 14 2015, 20:28:29) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import paramiko
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named 'paramiko'
>>> 

How can I make paramiko visible to Python 3?

Answer 1

As you can see from the path pip shows:

/usr/lib/python2.7/

You have paramiko isntalled in Python 2.7 and not 3.

Use pip3 (python installer for 3.x version) with pip3 install paramiko (using sudo if necessary) or python3 -m pip install paramiko to get the version of pip which installs to the directory for Python 3.

Answer 2

check if pip3 is installed

which pip3

then

 pip3 install paramiko

if that doesn't work, download the package and unzip it.

  python3 setup.py install

and that'll work for sure.

Plus, if you're running a fun distro of linux with a package manager, you can dnf/yum/zyppr/apt-get install python3-paramiko

Answer 3

$ sudo -H pip3 install paramiko --ignore-installed

Answer 4

First, you are using pip and not pip3 tries to install pip3 (sudo apt install python3-pip) and run the command pip3 install paramiko If the error continues to, verify the version of ubuntu. If the version is 16, it uses python3 version 3.5.2 (paramiko don't work in this version), so I recommend upgrading to 18 because python3 version is 3.6.8 and paramiko will be installed successfully.