awscli fails to work: No module named 'awscli'

I am trying to install awscli using pip3 on Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela.

I am getting the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jonathan/.local/bin/aws", line 19, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
ImportError: No module named 'awscli'

These are the steps I am taking, following the aws installation guide:

sudo pip install awscli --upgrade --user

everything seems to install fine.

adding to my .bashrc

export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

then

source ~/.bashrc

then i try the command

aws --version

and i get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jonathan/.local/bin/aws", line 19, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
ImportError: No module named 'awscli'

Can anyone help with this?

EDIT: For anyone visiting this question. There is no way I can test any of these answers because I have since removed this OS and installed Ubuntu. Also I have no need for awscli anymore.

Solution 1:

I had the same issue. I realized that awscli wasn't installed in /usr/local/lib/python3.5 but instead in /.local/usr . So i uninstalled awscli using

sudo pip3 uninstall awscli

and just used this

sudo pip3 install awscli

that solved the issue for me. Now aws --version is working perfectly. Also make sure you remove all the dependencies of awscli which were installed in the /.local folder, you can simply uninstall all of them, and then run the above command.

Solution 2:

On Windows 10 64bit I was getting the same error.

I have Python 2.7 and 3.7 installed on my PC. I tried the installing awscli using both of the following commands:

pip install --upgrade --user awscli
pip install awscli

I uninstalled the awscli using pip after using the first command.

After running the second command the error message persisted.

I solved the problem by changing the order of paths to search in my "System" PATH variable.

My "System" PATH variable looked like this:

C:\Program Files\Python\Python27\ 
C:\Program Files\Python\Python27\Scripts
C:\Program Files\Python\Python37\
C:\Program Files\Python\Python37\Scripts

So I used the "Move Up/ Down" buttons in the Environment Variables Control Panel to change the order to look like this:

C:\Program Files\Python\Python37\
C:\Program Files\Python\Python37\Scripts
C:\Program Files\Python\Python27\
C:\Program Files\Python\Python27\Scripts

Now the awscli is running without issues.