ImportError: No module named 'lib2to3'

[j.crater]

Hello all,
I have a problem when trying to install packages with Pip... I get this error:
ImportError: No module named 'lib2to3'

I have Python 3.5 installed on a Linux system. I browsed entire forum manually and couldn't find any similar topic :D
On a more serious note, I found some topics online regarding lib2to3 missing but I couldn't figure how to solve it in my case. Any hint would be appreciated, thanks!
Regards, JC

[Crimson King]

Didn't know about this program, but according to PyPI 2to3 has been part of the standard library since 2.6

Try typing 2to3 --help in your terminal and see if you get any output from it. You should have it installed already.

Cheers

[metulburr]

What linux distro and did you compile python yourself?

[j.crater]

Thank you for your reply. I tried what you suggested, but all I get is:
2to3: command not found
=/ I see that 2to3 should be built into Python, or rather be part of Python as a library. I don't know how but it seems that the Python version I have doesn't have 2to3 included.

[metulburr]

1) What linux distro are you using?
2) Are you using the default python that came with the distro or some modified version such as one you compiled or Anaconda, etc.?

[sparkz_alot]

Not sure if it will help, but on opensuse 42.1, 2to3 is located in /usr/bin,  also have /usr/bin/2to3-3.4.

The directory for lib2to3 is located in: /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib2to3
and also in /usr/lib64/python3.4/lib2to3

if you have 'locate' on your system, you could just use 'locate 2to3' from the command line.

[wavic]

which 2to3

should print the location of the binary

[j.crater]

Thanks for suggestions. I am using a Buildroot version of Linux, so Python came with the image and I really don't know how it was compiled.
Anyway, solution was just copying the lib2to3 directory from Python resources website into /usr/lib/python3.5/ =)