Hi . Strangely i can run pip3 as user in my Debian 9.6 .
$ which pip3 /usr/bin/pip3 $ LANG=us sudo apt-cache policy python3-pip python3-pip: Installed: 9.0.1-2+deb9u1 Candidate: 9.0.1-2+deb9u1 Version table: *** 9.0.1-2+deb9u1 500 500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ pip3 --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module> from pip import main ImportError: cannot import name 'main' $ sudo pip3 --version pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5) thanks. Alexandros