'No module named packaging

I work on Ubuntu 14. I install python3 and pip3. When I try to use pip3, I have this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pip3", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 70, i
n <module>
    import packaging.version
ImportError: No module named 'packaging'

Does someone know what is the issue?

Many thanks

pythonpython-3.xubuntupip


Solution 1:[1]

If I understand well, the issue that causes confusion in other's replies is that you have an error while running pip itself, which prevents self-updates of pip or installation of the missing package.

As requested, please state exactly how you installed Python 3 and pip. Ubuntu 14 does not come with Python 3.5.

For diagnosis, please give the output of

which python3

that is probably /usr/bin/python3 and refers to the system-wide python3 while your pip is located in /usr/local/bin/pip3.

Suggested solution: Uninstall system pip with apt-get remove python3-pip and try again with either pip3 or python3.5 -m pip.

Solution 2:[2]

First update your pip version itself. You can take a look at this answer

pip3 install --upgrade pip

And then try to install packaging, if its not already installed by now.

pip3 install packaging

Solution 3:[3]

I recently had the same error. Unfortunately none of the other answers solved my problem. Finally installing the following package resolved my issue:

sudo apt install python3-packaging

For older versions of Python you may need to adjust the command:

sudo apt install python-packaging

Solution 4:[4]

I got this issue and I solved it by getting the path to my python module on my virtualenv

python3.7 -c 'import sys; print(sys.path)'

Then I cloned github repository for Packaging

in one of the directory.. That's about it

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Pierre de Buyl
Solution 2 Vivek Kumar
Solution 3 marf.12
Solution 4 Alexandre Rueda Payen

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