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When I try to add virtualenv as an interpreter in PyCharm Community 2018.1.2 in Kubuntu 18.04 I get the following error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.core'
How can I solve this?
Hrvoje T
Posted 2018-05-02T10:51:38.610
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I had to install it. This was fresh Kubuntu 18.04 install, obviously, without this needed package.
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils
After that I restarted PyCharm and creating virtual project interpreter was successful.
Hrvoje T
Posted 2018-05-02T10:51:38.610
Reputation: 1 809
1This worked fine for me. – cstrutton – 2018-10-07T11:19:52.163
To bad the question doesn't specify how pycharm has been installed. So just for the completness sake: 1. This Pycharm has probably been installed with snap. (I use pycharm on several installs on a daily basis and never had this error. Only after testing snap with pycharm on a new 18.04 install) 2. After installing 'python3-disutils'. I received the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'". – MadMike – 2018-10-16T05:42:14.483
This will not install setup-tools. But python3-pip does. – wowkin2 – 2019-07-10T07:49:15.240
@MadMike In my case, the issue was a windows install attempting to use the remote SSH interpreter while targeting a raspbian server. Simply installing distutils as shown above was sufficient to get the interpreter going. – Basic – 2019-07-15T20:57:16.523
I cannot install python3-pip, please see https://askubuntu.com/questions/1185084/ubuntu-oracle-jdk-issues-but-version-looks-okay
PyCharm from snap: It got me past that error. Then I got to install setuptools. – Gunslinger – 2019-11-27T08:08:39.823
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If @Hrvoje T's answer did not work (it did not work for me) then try this:
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.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43567996/pycharm-python-packaging-tools-not-found
hyukkyulee
Posted 2018-05-02T10:51:38.610
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Neither @Hrvoje T and @hyukkyulee worked for me since I had already installed those packages. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't solve the issue as well.
I just upgraded my system to Ubuntu 19.10 and I noticed that they had upgrade the python interpreter to 3.7. PyCharm however was generating the venv interpreter based to its previous one (python 3.6). By changing the base interpreter from New Interpreter block I solved this issue.
Koldar
Posted 2018-05-02T10:51:38.610
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Actually, @hyukkyulee solution solved the issue.
It is because, by default, Ubuntu comes with python 2.7 and python 3.x version. And if you have installed pip using
sudo apt install python-pip
will install 'pip' in python 2.7 folder.
so you need to specify python3-pip to install pip in python 3 folder along with other util packages.
skay
Posted 2018-05-02T10:51:38.610
Reputation: 111
I used Kubuntu, not Ubuntu. – Hrvoje T – 2018-10-07T07:34:42.257
@HrvojeT This will work on any ([KULX]buntu on any plublished version. – MadMike – 2018-10-16T05:36:29.443
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Had the same issue with an installation of: PyCharm 2019.3.2 (Edu) Build #PE-193.6494.27, built on February 5, 2020 Runtime version: 11.0.5+10-b520.38 amd64 VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o Linux 5.3.0-7629-generic
Installed on Pop!_OS 19.10 with Python 3.7.2 installed. I did use Jetbrains Toolbox to install pycharm edu. Jetbrains Toolbox was installed using a script suggested by jetbrain's pycharm download page.
Running:
sudo apt install python3-pip
solved the problem instantly, didn't even have to restart pycharm, just created a new project and no issue setting up the virtual environment.
I did install python-pip after updating to python 3.7.2 before having pychram installed. So same as running python3.7 in a terminal without changing the alias the 3 after python matters.
Bitmansbridge
Posted 2018-05-02T10:51:38.610
Reputation: 1
Tracking issue for this to be fixed: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-32099
– phoenix – 2019-01-29T21:29:24.1871Always in linux... No problem on mac/windows, only in linux you always gotta add/fix something to work and get embarrassed when supporting it over the other two... – DimiDak – 2019-02-12T11:35:44.600
Every platform has its own problems. – Hrvoje T – 2019-02-12T11:43:48.407