I'm working on Ubuntu 20.04 and I want to install a package from some repo in python.

pip3 install git https://path-to-repo.git

this should have worked fine because when I do pip3 show package_name the package is found. However:

> python3
Python 3.8.2 (default, Mar 13 2020, 10:14:16) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import package_name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'package_name'

What am I doing wrong? How can I use the installed package?

CodePudding user response：

My solution:

1. Create new conda environment
   conda create -n new_env
2. Activate the new environment
   source activate new_env
3. Install pip in the new environment
   conda install pip
4. Install the package from git
   pip install git https://path-to-repo.git