# Error running pip install

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-running-pip-install/3822
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-running-pip-install/3822 "2018-08-13T16:12:50Z")
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### Author: ![darekdev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@darekdev](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/darekdev)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-running-pip-install/3822/1 "2018-08-13T16:12:50Z")

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I have built Slicer and always have working pip but now module is empty and I can’t run pip.main([‘install’, ‘module’])  
\>\>\> import pip

\>\>\> pip

\<module ‘pip’ from ‘/home/software/medical/slicer4.9/Slicer-SuperBuild-Release/python-install/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/ **init**.pyc’\>

\>\>\> dir(pip)

[‘ **builtins** ’, ‘ **doc** ’, ‘ **file** ’, ‘ **name** ’, ‘ **package** ’, ‘ **path** ’, ‘ **version** ’]

I can run for exanple

> ./Slicer --launch …/python-install/bin/pip install jedi

but can’t **import distutils** , and can’t run python code from [https://github.com/ihnorton/SlicerJupyter/blob/auto\_comp/JupyterKernel/qSlicerJupyterKernelModule.cxx](https://github.com/ihnorton/SlicerJupyter/blob/auto_comp/JupyterKernel/qSlicerJupyterKernelModule.cxx)