Ubuntu - How to install a Python module (BeautifulSoup) on Python 3.3 instead of Python 2.7?
Ubuntu has beautifulsoup packaged. I found it by running apt-cache search
$ apt-cache search beautifulsoup
I see it has both a 2.7 and 3.3 version in the results. You can get the 3.3 version by installing python3-bs4
$ sudo apt-get install python3-bs4
Use pip3
sudo pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
If you cannot run pip3 install it with the following:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo easy_install3 pip
xxx@Ubuntu14:~/Desktop$ sudo pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
[sudo] password for xxx:
Downloading/unpacking BeautifulSoup4
Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.3.2.tar.gz (143kB): 143kB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/BeautifulSoup4/setup.py) egg_info for package BeautifulSoup4
Installing collected packages: BeautifulSoup4
Running setup.py install for BeautifulSoup4
Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
Successfully installed BeautifulSoup4
Cleaning up...
xxx@Ubuntu14:~/Desktop$ python3
Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 13:08:17)
[GCC 4.9.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>>
A single command did the trick for me:
Try:
sudo apt-get install python3-bs4
and then import it as:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup