I am on Redhat, and when I run any fabric scripts I see the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fab", line 8, in from fabric.main import main ImportError: No module named fabric.main
The file /usr/bin/fab is configured to use python 2.7 (/usr/local/bin/python):
#!/usr/local/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import re import sys
from fabric.main import main
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(main())
The result is the same even if I just call fab.
Not sure what else I should be configuring. I have not set up a virtualenv for fab. If I must, I will do so.
I installed python 2.7, and then I installed fab as follows:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo /usr/local/bin/python get-pip.py
sudo /usr/local/bin/pip install fab
I ended up doing the following:
Install Python 2.7 in a virtualenv (~/virtualenvs/py2.7) by following the top-rated answer from Is it possible to install another version of Python to Virtualenv? by DTing
Install pip in ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/python2.7 get-pip.py
Install fab in ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin:
sudo ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/pip install fab
For some reason, I still did not have the fab file under ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin, so I just copied the original /usr/bin/fab that was giving me issues to ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/ and edited it to point to the virtualenv python2.7 (~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/python2.7)
Running ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/fab worked, and gave me the following (welcome) error:
Fatal error: Couldn't find any fabfiles!
Remember that -f can be used to specify fabfile path, and use -h for help.
Aborting.
I am content for now -- since fab seems to work. But if anyone has ideas why the actual fab file was not created in the ~/virtualenvs/py2.7/bin/ directory, I am all ears. Thank you!