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I've been trying to adopt pyenv for a few months, but have been completely blocked by this issue on one of the main machines I use. Whenever I start up ipython I get the following error.
ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3
I talked about why and how to use pyenv along with my first impressions in this post
pyenv/issues/678 #
According to #678 I need to
install libsqlite3-dev on ubuntu to resolve this issue.
install libsqlite3-dev #
libsqlite3-dev can be installed using apt
sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev
But wait.... #
When I make a fresh env and install ipython I still get the same error and I am still not able to use ipython with pyenv.
ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3
re-install python #
After having this issue for awhile an coming back to
#678 several times I realized that
libsqlite3-dev needs to be installed while during install.
pyenv install 3.8.13
I think I had tried this several times, but was missing the -y option each
time. You gotta read errors like this, I am really good at glossing over them.
Let's never have this issue again. #
When you spend months living with little errors like this and finally fix it,
its good to make sure that it never happens again. Whenever I start a new
ubuntu machine I run an ansible playbook that does all the setup for me. I
added libsqlite3-dev to my core install in
64c85ca
now it will be on all of my machines and not break again.