RPI.GPIO import error

[samuelklit]

Hi,

I have just got a raspberry pi 4 days ago. There have been lot’s of erorrs with it but now I fixed all….. ALMOST,

There is one problem and I can’t figure it out!

The problem is that I can’t use the GPIO pins, Then I try to run my script it says that it can't find a module named RPI.GPIO
By the way it's a B+

I have tried everything possibly available on the internet, None of it worked

I really hope that you can help(Please in depth details)


Thank

[DirkS]

The name of the module is case sensitive: RPi.GPIO (first 'i' is lowercase)

Gr.
Dirk.

[samuelklit]

Yeah i know but still dont Work

[DougieLawson]

Are you using python2 or python3?

sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install RPi.GPIO

[PeterO]

Please post a short example of your code that shows the problem.
PeterO

[samuelklit]

DougieLawson i use python3.
The first line of code worked "sudo apt-get install python3-pip".
But when i was trying the secund line it sayed "pip3: command not found"

[DougieLawson]

Try sudo /usr/bin/pip3 install RPi.GPIO

[samuelklit]

Same error
But thanks for fast answer

[DougieLawson]

Same error
But thanks for fast answer

Odd, very odd.

What does
sudo dpkg-query -L python3-pip
show?

[samuelklit]

It says:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii python3-pip 1.1-3 all alternative Python package instal

[DougieLawson]

sudo apt-get purge python3-pip
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

[samuelklit]

It doesnt work:(
Do i need to restart maybe?

[DougieLawson]

It doesnt work:(
Do i need to restart maybe?

Shouldn't need to.

Try
sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get purge python3-pip
apt-get install python3-pip
which pip3
pip3 install RPi.GPIO
exit

[samuelklit]

Then i tried "pip3 install RPi.GPIO" i sayed:
-bash: pip3: command not found

[DougieLawson]

Then i tried "pip3 install RPi.GPIO" i sayed:
-bash: pip3: command not found

You need to tell me what happens when you try the apt-get install. That's the step that is going wrong.

[samuelklit]

Okay here is what happens when i try "apt-get install python3-pip"

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3-pip is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Here what happens when i try "apt-get update"

Hit http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy Release
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://repository.wolfram.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy Release
Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy Release
Hit http://repository.wolfram.com stable Release
Hit http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy/rpi armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/main armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/contrib armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/rpi armhf Packages
Hit http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy/main armhf Packages
Ign http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy/rpi Translation-en_US
Ign http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy/rpi Translation-en
Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy/main Translation-en
Hit http://repository.wolfram.com stable/non-free armhf Packages
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/main Translation-en
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://repository.wolfram.com stable/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/rpi Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy/rpi Translation-en
Ign http://repository.wolfram.com stable/non-free Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done

[DougieLawson]

sudo -i
cd /tmp
wget http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/p/python-pip/python3-pip_1.1-3_all.deb
dpkg -i python3-pip_1.1-3_all.deb
pip3 install RPi.GPIO
exit

[samuelklit]

Same thing again:(

Here's the log:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo -i
root@raspberrypi:~# cd /tmp
root@raspberrypi:/tmp# wget http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/rasp ... -3_all.deb
--2014-07-25 11:03:50-- http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/rasp ... -3_all.deb
Resolving mirrordirector.raspbian.org (mirrordirector.raspbian.org)... 5.153.225.207, 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11
Connecting to mirrordirector.raspbian.org (mirrordirector.raspbian.org)|5.153.225.207|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/raspbian/rasp ... -3_all.deb [following]
--2014-07-25 11:03:50-- http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/raspbian/rasp ... -3_all.deb
Resolving mirrors.dotsrc.org (mirrors.dotsrc.org)... 130.225.254.116, 2001:878:346::116
Connecting to mirrors.dotsrc.org (mirrors.dotsrc.org)|130.225.254.116|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 79700 (78K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `python3-pip_1.1-3_all.deb'

100%[======================================>] 79,700 --.-K/s in 0.09s

2014-07-25 11:03:50 (843 KB/s) - `python3-pip_1.1-3_all.deb' saved [79700/79700]

root@raspberrypi:/tmp# dpkg -i python3-pip_1.1-3_all.deb
(Reading database ... 70848 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python3-pip 1.1-3 (using python3-pip_1.1-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python3-pip ...
Setting up python3-pip (1.1-3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
root@raspberrypi:/tmp# pip3 install RPi.GPIO
-bash: pip3: command not found
root@raspberrypi:/tmp#

[DougieLawson]

Arrrggghhhh!

It doesn't make any sense.

So hit it with sudo shutdown -r now and see if the "Have you switched it off and on?" approach to software troubleshooting has any effect at all. I'm not hopeful, but I'm completely confused.

[croston]

You could possibly try:

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pip-3.2 install RPi.GPIO

or:

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pip3.2 install RPi.GPIO

[samuelklit]

Still dont work
Iam currently trying to install raspian again

[samuelklit]

Update:

I reinstalled raspian and gues what it WORKS!!