I am setting up the base for a django project, I have cloned a repo and I have just created a virtual environment for the project in the same directory.
But when I try to run the command pip install -r requirements.txt
in the project directory I get this error:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'
I believe I’m just running it in the wrong directory, but I don’t really know where I should run it. Do you have any idea where the file could be located?
Rohan Devaki
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asked Oct 20, 2017 at 17:36
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If you are using a virtual environment just use the following line.
pip freeze > requirements.txt
It commands to create the requirements file first.
Or in dockerfile, RUN pip freeze > requirements.txt
.
answered Feb 14, 2019 at 2:54
AbhiAbhi
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If you are facing this issue while using a docker or flowing getting started guide from docker site then you need to update your Docker file.
just add following line to create the requirements.txt file before the line «RUN pip install —no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt» in your Dockerfile
RUN pip freeze > requirements.txt
answered Feb 21, 2020 at 7:37
A better way of doing this is write this on the root directory of your terminal:
find . -regex '.*requirements.txt$'
It will search in your root directory and all subfolders for a file called requirements.txt
. After the command response, you can get the directory and run the pip install -r requirements.txt
on it.
answered Oct 20, 2017 at 20:13
hermancaldarahermancaldara
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Try using this in your terminal then go to the directory and use the pip install command.
find -name "requirements.txt"
answered Oct 20, 2017 at 19:04
pissallpissall
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I tried this and solved:
COPY requirements.txt /tmp/
RUN pip install --requirement /tmp/requirements.txt
answered Feb 18, 2021 at 9:33
I faced the same issue and this is because I wrote the RUN
instruction before COPY
instruction, so make sure to write it in the correct order.
FROM python:3
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
CMD [ "python", "./test.py" ]
The solution:
FROM python:3
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY . .
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
CMD [ "python", "./test.py" ]
answered Apr 16, 2021 at 23:53
if you are on Mac os
pip3 freeze > requirements.txt
and then
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
answered May 4, 2021 at 16:57
I solved this problem by indicating the full path to file (for example):
pip install -r /Users/aleks/Desktop/....../requirements.txt
lemon
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answered May 31, 2022 at 11:16
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Make sure you cd
back into the repo file after creating your virtual environment to store project. In my case, I created, cd
into the folder, then forgot to cd
back into the repo file. I struggled with all the options of solutions I found here till I carefully looked at my commands and had to cd
back. That way I install requirements.txt
still using this:
pip install -r requirements.txt
answered Mar 29 at 0:05
Check if you have requirements.txt
file in the directory.
and then run the following command.
pip install -r requirements.txt
answered May 22, 2020 at 0:24
vishwarajvishwaraj
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Make sure the requirements.txt
file is in the same folder where you are installing it using pip install -r requirements.txt
Rohan Devaki
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answered Sep 20, 2020 at 9:06
MintyMinty
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I had this problem, 3 years too late however move the req file into downloads and then try it again
answered Jan 25, 2021 at 10:44
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it gives «pip install -r requirements.txt [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘requirements.txt’, » times and times, with the codes
- python –m venv env
- envScriptsactivate
- pip install – r requirements.txt
…
after the codes are below, I write. It runs. - python –m venv xenv (with different env’s name)
- envScriptsactivate
- pip install – r requirements.txt
…
it runs. the file names in the requirements.txt are underlined with red, but it runs and it accepts, opens the files, and app runs.
answered Sep 11, 2022 at 9:22
Find requirements.txt using the command:
find -name "requirements.txt"
Get into the directory then run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
That worked for me.
answered May 8 at 10:54
Please check the command which you are running, I faced the same issue and after few minutes of search, I found I am placing a space in between mysql -connector
.
Correct command:
pip3 install mysql-connector
Wrong command:
pip3 install mysql -connector
GooDeeJAY
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answered Apr 13, 2021 at 20:03
I had the same problem and change my directory as follow:
import os
os.chdir('Your Path (GitHub project, ...)')
!pip install -r requirements.txt
instead of
cd path
pip install -r requirements.txt
answered Jun 8, 2021 at 7:51
abbas abaeiabbas abaei
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Try to run this one in your terminal it will automatically list all the dependencies you have.
NB:
it’s recommended for flask development
pip freeze > requirements.txt
answered Jun 20, 2018 at 14:37
i am on the same folder:
folder location:
~/myimage/
files inside this folder :
app.py
docker-compose.yml
Dockerfile
requirement.txt
and my Dockerfile code is :
RUN apt-get update || apt-get update -y && apt-get install nodejs npm curl python-pip -y RUN pip install --upgrade pip RUN npm install --save RUN npm audit fix --force RUN pip install -r requirement.txt
i am getting this error:
Step 38/39 : RUN pip install -r requirement.txt ---> Running in 17e0f7e2f8b1 Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirement.txt' The command '/bin/sh -c pip install -r requirement.txt' returned a non-zero code: 1
what should i do wrong ?
plz guide am new in this.
When trying to install Python dependencies using pip
and requirements.txt
file, you might encounter the following error:
ERROR: Could not open requirements file:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'
This error occurs when you run the pip install -r requirements.txt
command but the requirements.txt
file is not available in the current directory.
There are three possible methods you can use to resolve this error:
- Generate a requirements.txt file using
pip freeze
command - Generate and run
requirements.txt
file from a Docker instance - Find the location of
requirements.txt
and use the correct path when installing
I will show you how to fix this error in practice using the methods above.
1. Generate the requirements.txt file
You can resolve this error by generating a requirements.txt
file with the pip freeze
command:
pip freeze > requirements.txt
# For pip3 users:
pip3 freeze > requirements.txt
The freeze
command will generate a requirements.txt
file based on the dependencies you’ve installed using pip.
Once finished, you should be able to run the pip install command again without receiving this error.
2. How to generate and run requirements.txt from Docker
If you’re using Docker to run your Python code, then you can generate and install the requirements.txt
file by writing this command in your Dockerfile:
RUN pip freeze > requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
The first command uses pip freeze
to generate the text file, and the second command will install packages defined in the file.
3. How to find your requirements.txt file
If you think you already have the requirements.txt file somewhere in your project, then you can use the find
command to get the location of your requirements.txt
file.
From the root directory of your project, run the following command:
find . -regex '.*requirements.txt$'
You should see a response as follows:
You can then use this location when running the pip install command as shown below:
pip install -r ./src/requirements.txt
# or pip3:
pip3 install -r ./src/requirements.txt
pip can be used to install from a different path, but you need to provide the relative path from the current directory as shown below:
pip3 install -r ./path/to/file
If you already found the requirements.txt
file, you can also move that file to the root directory for easy access.
Conclusion
Python raises [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'
when it can’t find the requirements.txt
file needed by pip.
To resolve this error, you can generate a requirements.txt
file by running the pip freeze > requirements.txt
command.
You can also use the find
command to find the location of your requirements.txt file and use it in your pip install
command.
I hope this tutorial helps. See you in other tutorials! 👍
(myenv1) root@p-VirtualBox:~/online-exam/onlineexam# pip install requirements.txt
Collecting requirements.txt
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 353, in run
wb.build(autobuilding=True)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 749, in build
self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 554, in _prepare_file
require_hashes
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 278, in populate_link
self.link = finder.find_requirement(self, upgrade)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 465, in find_requirement
all_candidates = self.find_all_candidates(req.name)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 423, in find_all_candidates
for page in self._get_pages(url_locations, project_name):
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 568, in _get_pages
page = self._get_page(location)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 683, in _get_page
return HTMLPage.get_page(link, session=self.session)
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 795, in get_page
resp.raise_for_status()
File "/root/online-exam/myenv1/share/python-wheels/requests-2.18.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl/requests/models.py", line 935, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/requirements-txt/
Last updated on
Jun 22, 2021
This quick article will be show you how to solve error during pip install of requirements.txt:
pip install requirements.txt
and the error:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement requirements.txt (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for requirements.txt
The errors is caused by incorrect syntax for the install command. The correct pip install command for installing requirement files is:
pip install -r requirements.txt
If the -r
option is skipped pip will try to install package requirements.txt.
If you work with requirement files then the option should be added. From the official docs:
-r, —requirement Install from the given requirements file. This option can be used multiple times.
More info can be found at this link: Pip Requirements Files