using the linkedin api

[micseydel]

You didn't name any of your files linkedin, did you? Because python tries to load anything in the current directory before checking site-packages.

You'd usually get something more about a module not having an attribute, not that the module can't be found at all.

I think buran has the right idea. I just did sudo pip install linkedin followed by (in a Python interpreter) import linkedin and had no problems.

@emilevs: what do you get from these two commands?

Output:
$ pip --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)
$ python --version
Python 2.7.3