auto_backup: pysftp dependency is not being recognized

I’ve cloned the github repository into my Odoo machine and added the correct dependency on odoo-server.conf file, but when I click “Update modules list” on the application, I got the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 544, in _handle_exception return super(JsonRequest, self)._handle_exception(exception) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 581, in dispatch result = self._call_function(**self.params) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 317, in _call_function return checked_call(self.db, *args, **kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/service/model.py”, line 118, in wrapper return f(dbname, *args, **kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 314, in checked_call return self.endpoint(*a, **kw) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 810, in __call__ return self.method(*args, **kw) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 410, in response_wrap response = f(*args, **kw) File “/opt/odoo/addons/web/controllers/main.py”, line 948, in call_button action = self._call_kw(model, method, args, {}) File “/opt/odoo/addons/web/controllers/main.py”, line 936, in _call_kw return getattr(request.registry.get(model), method)(request.cr, request.uid, *args, **kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/api.py”, line 268, in wrapper return old_api(self, *args, **kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/api.py”, line 439, in old_api result = new_api(recs, *args, **kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/api.py”, line 443, in new_api result = [method(rec, *args, **kwargs) for rec in self File “/opt/odoo/openerp/addons/base/module/wizard/base_module_update.py”, line 15, in update_module self.updated, self.added = self.env[‘ir.module.module’].update_list() File “/opt/odoo/openerp/api.py”, line 266, in wrapper return new_api(self, *args, **kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/api.py”, line 508, in new_api result = method(self._model, cr, uid, *args, **old_kwargs) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/addons/base/module/module.py”, line 651, in update_list handler.load_addons() File “/opt/odoo/openerp/http.py”, line 1317, in load_addons m = __import__(‘openerp.addons.’ + module) File “/opt/odoo/openerp/modules/module.py”, line 80, in load_module mod = imp.load_module(‘openerp.addons.’ + module_part, f, path, descr) File “/opt/odoo/auto_backup/auto_backup/__init__.py”, line 23, in <module> import backup_scheduler File “/opt/odoo/auto_backup/auto_backup/backup_scheduler.py”, line 33, in <module> raise ImportError(‘This module needs pysftp to automaticly write backups to the FTP through SFTP. Please install pysftp on your system. (sudo pip install pysftp)’) ImportError: This module needs pysftp to automaticly write backups to the FTP through SFTP. Please install pysftp on your system. (sudo pip install pysftp)

Then I typed sudo pip install pysftp in the terminal and I got

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pysftp in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): paramiko>=1.17 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from pysftp) Cleaning up…

I even tryed to type sudo pip install pysftp --upgrade but I got

Requirement already up-to-date: pysftp in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Requirement already up-to-date: paramiko>=1.17 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from pysftp) Cleaning up…

Could you help me on that, please?

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FWIW on another instance i’ve run into the following issue while attempting this again from another web hosting company:

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/pip”, line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 70, in <module> import packaging.version ImportError: No module named packaging.version

I have resolved it using the following method (as root user): apt-get purge -y python-pip wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py python ./get-pip.py apt-get install python-pip

thanks to the suggestions on this blog: https://odedrabhavesh.blogspot.hk/2017/02/importerror-no-module-named.html

lukebranch on Feb 16, 2017

@wangdaze ,

I haven’t encountered your specific issue personally, however I believe it is still due to missing dependencies on your system. Try removing pysftp first and then do this:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev

then reinstall pysftp and see if you still encounter the same issues. I’m pretty sure that specific error is related to the build-essentials dependency.

lukebranch on Feb 15, 2017

You don’t have to understand, but Google is your friend 😉

treviser on Oct 2, 2017

@Yenthe666 I was able to install pysftp on my older servers (for 8.0 and 9.0) because they were initially on Ubuntu 14.04. It is only on my newly created 16.04 instances running Odoo 10.0. I’ll give your master version a try, thanks!

treviser on Oct 1, 2017

Hi all,

I’ve decided to drop the pysftp library in the upcoming V11 and change it directly to paramenko. This means there’ll be less dependencies downloaded and installed (since pysftp itself depends on a lot of other stuff too). I’m slowly changing the behaviour (locally, not yet on Github) and only face a major problem on the paraminko transfer methods in case there is no folder. The goal is to have this new dependency in place before V11.

@lukebranch yes it would be possible to hook into other libraries and execute methods (for example through a shell or virtual environment). I do believe that this is a bit tricky / extreme to accomplish this though as it’ll most likely have more chance of breaking than just a python library as it works now. Hope you agree / understand 😉

Regards, Yenthe

Yenthe666 on Aug 19, 2017

@beatrizlana-br Thanks for your sharing！It works,first I install cryptography ,It not work until reboot .Thanks for all

wangdaze on Feb 16, 2017

Thanks for all the answers guys! I rebooted the server and nothing happened, but I found out the solution. I’ll put it here in case someone has the same issues:

I typed python in the terminal, then import pysftp and I got the message

File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py”, line 33, in <module> from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend ImportError: No module named cryptography.hazmat.backends

Then I exited python and typed sudo pip install cryptography . After that I entered python again and typed import pysftp and it worked.

beatrizlana-br on Feb 15, 2017

Hi @beatrizlana-br,

Looks like your Ubuntu has issues with figuring out what is installed or not installed. The easiest fix is a full reboot of your server, then the system should know the exact state.

Yenthe666 on Feb 15, 2017

@lukebranch Thanks!

wangdaze on Feb 15, 2017

@beatrizlana-br ,

I am in no way involved with this project, however as another user I did find that I needed to: sudo pip uninstall pysftp

to remove the library first. then: sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libffi-dev

to install some required tools and libraries related to installing pysftp.

and then: sudo pip install pysftp

to reinstall pysftp. Once you’ve done this restart the odoo service, or your server and see if you still run into this issue again.

In my case pysftp was not being compiled properly on a clean Ubuntu 14.04 instance, and these were the steps I needed to follow to get it working.

lukebranch on Feb 14, 2017