Airflow: ImportError: No module named configparser

Question

Environment: Python 2.7.5 & Centos 7

I have successfully installed airflow using:

pip install apache-airflow 

But when I run

airflow initdb ,

it says:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/airflow", line 21, in <module>
    from airflow import configuration
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/airflow/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
    from airflow import configuration as conf
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/airflow/configuration.py", line 38, in <module>
    from backports.configparser import ConfigParser
ImportError: No module named configparser

What am I missing?

Answer 1

The issue is you have installed a wrong package. airflow was renamed to apache-airflow from 1.8.1. The website you used has outdated docs.

Please install using the following command

export AIRFLOW_GPL_UNIDECODE=yes
pip install apache-airflow

This should install 1.10.0 which is the latest stable version and resolve your issues.