ImportError: No module named 'psutil'

Question

Hello i'm trying to run an odoo project and everytime i try to run it i get the following error

ImportError: No module named 'psutil'

i have tried to run

import psutil

via command line and it gives me also this error i'm using odoo 11 and python 3.5 i have tried the following commands to install the package

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

also

sudo apt-get install python3-psutil

and for sure

sudo pip3 install psutil

and it supposed to be installed now as when i run the last command again it gives me this message

Requirement already satisfied: psutil in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (5.4.5)

but when i run the odoo project it gives me the error

thanks

Can you describe in more detail what you mean by "run an odoo project"? How do you invoke Python? — IonicSolutions, May 02 '18 at 10:49
i cloned the project from the repo and run the following command ./odoo.py — a3adel, May 02 '18 at 10:50
Did you check https://www.odoo.com/documentation/11.0/setup/install.html#running-odoo and the following section on virtualenvs? — IonicSolutions, May 02 '18 at 10:54
yes i have but i'm cloning another project from the companie's repo — a3adel, May 02 '18 at 11:00
Can you describe your Python setup in more detail? Are you using anaconda or virtualenv? — IonicSolutions, May 02 '18 at 11:06
iam using virtualenv, and actually this is my first time with odoo xD — a3adel, May 02 '18 at 11:09
Are you sure that psutils is available in your virtualenv? How did you set up your virtualenv? — IonicSolutions, May 02 '18 at 11:10
i installed virtaulvenv via the command line sudo apt-get install -y git virtualenv and i don't know if psutils is available or not how to check for it ? — a3adel, May 02 '18 at 11:23
Check out http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ — IonicSolutions, May 02 '18 at 11:27

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 28 '18 at 21:08

I don't know if this is the same problem (I am working on a vanilla Ubuntu 16.04), but I was getting a similar frustrating message around psutil. The problem seemed to be that it was installed in my Python 2.7 version, and pip was only looking at that version, seemingly ignoring the fact that my current virtual environment was Python 3.5.

I noticed pip3 did nothing, so I installed pip3 with apt-get install python3-pip. Then I could could successfully use pip3 install psutil to install into the correct Python3.5 and my virtual directory.

What I am puzzled by is how I got so far without hitting this earlier. I have installed lots of things over the last few months with pip and they seemingly went into both versions (side-by-side Python2.7 and Python3.5 environments for running TensorFlow). Why is it different for psutil?

But it works now.

Perhaps these steps might fix your problem.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 25 '20 at 10:56

Change the Python3 default version in Ubuntu

From the comment:

sudo update-alternatives --config python

Will show you an error:

update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for python3

You need to update your update-alternatives, then you will be able to set your default python version.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.5 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.6 2

Then run :

sudo update-alternatives --config python

Set python3.6 as default.

Or use the following command to set python3.6 as default:

sudo update-alternatives  --set python /usr/bin/python3.6

ImportError: No module named 'psutil'

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