ImportError cannot import name appdirs

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to install tweepy module in my Linux system, but it is showing me the below error.

$ pip install tweepy
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/user_name/anaconda3/bin/pip", line 6,
    in <module> from pip._internal.cli.main import main
    File "/Users/user_name/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-
    packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
    from pip._vendor import appdirs as _appdirs
      ImportError: cannot import name 'appdirs'

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

I think you missed some module to install. You can use the below given codes to avoid this error.

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/48/69/d87c60746b393309ca30761f8e2b49473d43450b150cb08f3c6df5c11be5
/appdirs-1.4.3.tar.gz
tar -xvf appdirs-1.4.3.tar
cd appdirs-1.4.3
sudo python setup.py install