[Tutor] pip says no downloads for PyMedia

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Sat Sep 10 20:19:02 EDT 2016


I am working on an exercise that needs PyMedia. pypi seems to have the 
package but will not download it.

jfb at Jims-1404:~$ pip3 search PyMedia
pymediafire               - A python package for MediaFire API
ffmpymedia                - Wrapper around the FFMPEG utility
PyMedia                   - PyMedia is a module/library for manipulating 
mp3, avi, ogg, divx, mpeg, dvd media
                             files
pymedia2-pyrana           - Package for simple manipulation of 
multimedia files
pymediainfo               - A Python wrapper for the mediainfo library.
PyMediaRSS2Gen            - A Python library for generating Media RSS 
2.0 feeds.
jfb at Jims-1404:~$ sudo pip3 install PyMedia
[sudo] password for jfb:
Downloading/unpacking PyMedia
   Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PyMedia
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for PyMedia
Storing debug log for failure in /home/jfb/.pip/pip.log
jfb at Jims-1404:~$

 From pip.log:

------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/pip3 run on Sat Sep 10 19:04:34 2016
Downloading/unpacking PyMedia
   Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/PyMedia/
   URLs to search for versions for PyMedia:
   * https://pypi.python.org/simple/PyMedia/
   Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/pymedia/
   Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PyMedia
Cleaning up...
   Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_root...
No distributions at all found for PyMedia
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, 
in main
     status = self.run(options, args)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 
278, in run
     requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, 
force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1178, in 
prepare_files
     url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 277, in 
find_requirement
     raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % 
req)
pip.exceptions.DistributionNotFound: No distributions at all found for 
PyMedia

I am using python3 could that be the problem?  I looked but couldn't 
find any info on what version of python is needed.

Thanks,  Jim



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