I’m trying to install a python module called cymysql on a CentOS 6 system by commands like
yum install -y python-setuptools && easy_install pip && pip install cymysql
However I received an Error message saying there’re a few lines got SyntaxError: invalid syntax ( see the error code as following)—It actually happened when I run the third command pip install cymysql
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('pip==21.0', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 561, in load_entry_point
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2631, in load_entry_point
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2291, in load
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2297, in resolve
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-21.0-py2.7.egg/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 60
sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}")
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Not so sure what’s happening here, just wondering if anyone can help? (I enclosed the pip file and main.py here but I don’t know where is the init.py file).BTW, It’s centOS 6 but I have installed the Python 3.6.10 on the server.When I run the command python3.6 -V, I got
python3.6.10
FIY
PIP file Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'pip==21.0','console_scripts','pip'
__requires__ = 'pip==21.0'
import re
import sys
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script.pyw?|.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(
load_entry_point('pip==21.0', 'console_scripts', 'pip')() //**THIS IS LINE 11**
)
Line 57 to 62 in Main.py
try:
cmd_name, cmd_args = parse_command(args)
except PipError as exc:
sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}") //**THIS IS LINE 60**
sys.stderr.write(os.linesep)
sys.exit(1)
2
Answers
&tldr;
On an RPM-based distro, you use RPM packages as much as possible.
Never run
pip
as root userYou must not use
pip
as root user (or asking for trouble).There is a whole infrastructure of Python packages installable through
yum
and this is what you should use.You can still use
pip
to install Python modules, but only in very rare cases when a Python module is not available as a package. In that case you must usepip
inside a virtual Python environment. Your case is such.Make sure you have fixed
yum
for base, EPEL and set up SCLO repositories, since CentOS 6 is EOL.Then:
Now you can create a virtual environment with any packages from pip, but you have to activate the software collection in your shell first, example:
Do not go over pip version 20 on a Centos 6 system, otherwise wheels with precompiled c libraries will break.
Long story short, do this first:
After that you can install cymysql