Hi Team,

Getting the below error on AIX 7.2 server. please assist to fix it

root@:/opt/freeware/bin # /opt/freeware/bin/pip3 --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/freeware/bin/pip3", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('pip==23.3.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip3')())
  File "/opt/freeware/bin/pip3", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 542, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 196, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: pip

Regards,

Ramkumar

Hi,

> importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: pip

Check if python3.9-importlib-metadata is installed in your LPAR using rpm -qa | grep importlib-metadata

If not, then do dnf install python3-importlib-metadata and pip3 should work.

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Aditya Kamath
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