Pipenv: Command Not Found

Question

I'm new to Python development and attempting to use pipenv. I ran the command pip install pipenv, which ran successfully:

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Successfully built pipenv pathlib shutilwhich pythonz-bd virtualenv-clone
Installing collected packages: virtualenv, pathlib, shutilwhich, backports.shutil-get-terminal-size, pythonz-bd, virtualenv-clone, pew, first, six, click, pip-tools, certifi, chardet, idna, urllib3, requests, pipenv
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However, when I run the command pipenv install in a fresh root project directory I receive the following message: -bash: pipenv: command not found. I suspect that I might need to modify my .bashrc, but I'm unclear about what to add to the file or if modification is even necessary.

Answer 1

You might consider installing pipenv via pipsi.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitsuhiko/pipsi/master/get -pipsi.py | python3
pipsi install pew
pipsi install pipenv

Unfortunately there are some issues with macOS + python3 at the time of writing, see 1, 2. In my case I had to change the bashprompt to #!/Users/einselbst/.local/venvs/pipsi/bin/python

Answer 2

After installing pipenv (sudo pip install pipenv), I kept getting the "Command Not Found" error when attempting to run the pipenv shell command.

I finally fixed it with the following code:

pip3 install pipenv
pipenv shell

Answer 3

I have same problem with pipenv on Mac OS X 10.13 High Seirra, another Mac works just fine. I use Heroku to deploy my Django servers, some in 2.7 and some in 3.6. So, I need both 2.7 and 3.6. When HomeBrew install Python, it keeps python points to original 2.7, and python3 points to 3.6.

The problem might due to $ pip install pipenv. I checked /usr/local/bin and pipenv isn't there. So, I tried a full uninstall:

$ pip uninstall pipenv

Cannot uninstall requirement pipenv, not installed
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

$ pip3 uninstall pipenv
Skipping pipenv as it is not installed.

Then reinstall and works now:

$ pip3 install pipenv
Collecting pipenv

Answer 4

On Mac OS X Catalina it appears to follow the Linux path. Using any of:

pip install pipenv
pip3 install pipenv
sudo pip install pipenv
sudo pip3 install pipenv

Essentially installs pipenv here:

/Users/mike/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/pipenv

But its not the executable and so is never found. The only thing that worked for me was

pip install --user pipenv

This seems to result in an __init__.py file in the above directory that has contents to correctly expose the pipenv command.

and everything started working, when all other posted and commented suggestions on this question failed.

The pipenv package certainly seems quite picky.

Answer 5

I tried this:

python -m pipenv # for python2

python3 -m pipenv # for python3

Hope this can help you.

Answer 6

That happens because you are not installing it globally (system wide). For it to be available in your path you need to install it using sudo, like this:

$ sudo pip install pipenv