CommandError: You appear not to have the 'sqlite3' program installed or on your path

Question

I recently installed Django to use as a web framework and I am trying use the command python manage.py dbshell to access the database shell for SQLite as said in th

Answer 1

I had same issue with visual studio code, I re-launched the application and it worked fine .

Answer 2

One solution that works for me is that I saved the downloaded files to the folder where the file manage.py is located.

Answer 3

I faced the same problem. Finally, I found a decision:

• downloaded sqlite3.exe from https://www.sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-shell-win32-x86-3081002.zip and saved it to the another directory
• added that directory to the environment variable PATH
• closed and reopened CMD windows terminal
• and just after that command sqlite3 worked for me and I saw a message SQLite version 3.8.10.2 2015-05-20 18:17:19 ....

Answer 4

If you are on linux ditribution:

1. Frist install sqlite3 with this command sudo apt-get install sqlite via terminal.

2. After that, use this one command to access sql shell python manage.py dbshell.

Answer 5

After you add the directory to your PATH, close and reopen Command Prompt. This will make the changes to PATH available to your current Command Prompt session.

Answer 6

If you run it in the linux, pls install sqlite3 cli firstly

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev