howdy: Error while installing Ubuntu 19.04

Unpacking howdy (2.5.1) ...
Setting up howdy (2.5.1) ...

>>> Upgrading pip to the latest version

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
Error while running last command
dpkg: error processing package howdy (--configure):
 installed howdy package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 howdy
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Linux distribution (if applicable): Ubuntu 19.04

Howdy version: 2.5.1

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot? Have tried to install serveral times and same error each and every time.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Comments: 23 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

PIP changed their entry point so /usr/bin/pip3 broke. To fix this change: from pip._internal import main to from pip._internal.main import main in /usr/bin/pip3

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TheBrokenRail on Oct 24, 2019

I used sudo ln /usr/local/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip3 to create a file link and fix this issue

CoderThomasB on Jul 11, 2021

I had the same problem, I found that it installed by downloading the deb file (under the Debian section) and installing with sudo dpkg --install howdy_2.5.1.deb. Still debugging why the official Ubuntu install method won’t work…

leighleighleigh on Oct 16, 2019

I cleaned up everything and reinstalled and worked perfectly with pip3 entry point modification. Thank you for your help.

jmlgo on Oct 24, 2019