pyenv no module named '_sqlite3' ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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... Date: May 31, 2022 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. Image: pyenv-install-exists.webp 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.