pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available

Question

I am using Python3.6, when I try to install \"modules\" using pip3, I am facing the below mentioned issue \"pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SS

Answer 1

I got into this problem using Ubuntu, pyenv and Python 3.8.1 managed by pyenv. There was actually no way to get pip to work correctly, since every time I tried to install anything, including pip itself, the same error showed up. Final solution was to install, via pyenv, a newer version, in this case 3.8.6. Apparently, from 3.8.4 Python is prepared to run SSL/TLS out of the box, so everything worked fine.

Answer 2

If someone is using Arch Linux OS, I solved the TLS/SSL problem by running this:

sudo pacman -S openssl

Then I could use pip to install the package I needed:

pip install openpyxl

Answer 3

Worked for me.

apt-get install libssl-dev

Use this to enable ssl for pip. Let me know if someone encounters issues.

Answer 4

You’d try from Anaconda Prompt.

You will see (base), now upgrade pip. Example:

(base) C:\Users\Tom>cd ..

(base) C:\Users>cd ..

(base) C:\>python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in g:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (20.0.2)

(base) C:\>pip -V
pip 20.0.2 from G:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)

# Try install
(base) C:\>pip install selenium

This takes a longer time, but will also install or upgrade SSL libraries that Anaconda uses internally. Keep Going here

Answer 5

I am on macOS and I had used brew but what Vaulstein mentioned in his answer didn't cover my case.

I run the following commands to make sure my current python was not installed by brew

brew list | grep python           
python
python@2

brew info python
python@3.8: stable 3.8.3 (bottled)
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
https://www.python.org/
Not installed
... 

So I download the latest 3.8.5 from https://www.python.org/ and when installing it I saw following information

Certificate verification and OpenSSL

This package includes its own private copy of OpenSSL 1.1.1. The trust certificates in system and user keychains managed by the Keychain Access application and the security command line utility are not used as defaults by the Python ssl module

After installed 3.8.5 it fixed the problem.

Answer 6

Similar to the above solution reinstall the python version with pyenv.

Somehow, I upgraded my openssl which broke the pyenv version python.

pyenv install 3.6.8
python-build: use openssl@1.1 from homebrew
python-build: use readline from homebrew
...

The first line says it relies on the homebrew openssl.