Install Troubleshooting

=======================

Before posting an issue, please review our list of [common issues]

(https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues?q=label%3AFAQ+is%3Aclosed).

These are issues we have closed because we cannot address them within the CLI due
to platform or language limitations.

lsb_release does not return the correct base distribution version

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Some Ubuntu- or Debian-derived distributions such as Linux Mint may not return the
correct version name from `lsb_release`. This value is used in the install process
to determine the package to install. If you know the code name of the Ubuntu or
Debian version your distribution is derived from, you can set the `AZ_REPO` value
manually when [adding the repository](https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/install-
azure-cli-apt#set-release). Otherwise, look up information for your distribution on
how to determine the base distribution code name and set `AZ_REPO` to the correct
value.

No package for your Debian-based distribution

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Sometimes it may be a while after a distribution is released before there's an

Azure CLI package available for it. The Azure CLI is designed to be resilient with
regards to future versions of dependencies and rely on as few of them as possible.
If there's no package available for your base distribution, try a package for an
earlier distribution.

To do this, set the value of `AZ_REPO` manually when [adding the repository]
(https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-apt#set-release). For
Ubuntu distributions use the `bionic` repository, and for Debian distributions
use `stretch`. Distributions released before Ubuntu Trusty and Debian Wheezy are
not supported.

Install on RHEL 7.6 or other YUM-managed systems without Python 3

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If you can, please upgrade your system to a version with official support for
`python3` package. Otherwise, you need to first install a `python3` package, either
[build from source](https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/docs/wiki/Building-Python-
3.6.x) or install through some [additional repo]
(https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/08/13/install-python3-rhel/). Then you can
download the package and install it without dependency.
```bash
$ sudo yum install yum-utils
$ sudo yumdownloader azure-cli
$ sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps azure-cli-*.rpm
```

Install on SLES 12 or other other zypper-managed systems without Python 3.6

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On SLES 12, the default `python3` package is 3.4 and not supported by Azure CLI.
You can first build a higher version `python3` from source. Then you can download
the Azure CLI package and install it without dependency.
```bash
$ sudo zypper install -y gcc gcc-c++ make ncurses patch wget tar zlib-devel zlib
# Download Python source code
$ PYTHON_VERSION="3.6.9"
$ PYTHON_SRC_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
$ wget -qO- https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PYTHON_VERSION/Python-
$PYTHON_VERSION.tgz | tar -xz -C "$PYTHON_SRC_DIR"
# Build Python
$ $PYTHON_SRC_DIR/*/configure --with-ssl
$ make
$ sudo make install
# Download azure-cli package
$ AZ_VERSION=$(zypper --no-refresh info azure-cli |grep Version | awk -F': '
'{print $2}' | awk '{$1=$1;print}')
$ wget https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/azure-cli/azure-cli-
$AZ_VERSION.x86_64.rpm
# Install without dependency
$ sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps azure-cli-$AZ_VERSION.x86_64.rpm
```

Completion is not working

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#### MacOS

The Homebrew formula of Azure CLI installs a completion file named `az` in the
Homebrew-managed completions directory (default location is
`/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/`). To enable completion, please follow
Homebrew's instructions [here](https://docs.brew.sh/Shell-Completion).

Upgrade from 0.1.0b10 causes 'KeyError: Azure' error

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On Python 2, it's recommended to upgrade with the `--ignore-installed` flag:

`pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed azure-cli`.

Alternatively, use the interactive install script.

See [#1540](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/1540#issue-195125878)

Error: 'Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement azure-cli'
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The error message from pip usually means a very old version of pip is installed.
Run `pip --version` to confirm. [Latest pip version]
(https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/)

Upgrade `pip` with ``$ pip install --upgrade pip`` or install with the ``--pre``
flag.

See [#1308](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/1308#issuecomment-260413613)

'X509' object has no attribute '_x509'

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If you run into an ``AttributeError: 'X509' object has no attribute '_x509'``
error, downgrade your version of the requests library from 2.12.1 to 2.11.1.

See [#1360](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/1360)

Windows - 'FileNotFoundError' error on install

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Verify that the file path quoted in the error has more than 260 characters.

If so, the installation files exceed the 260 character limit for file paths on
Windows.

This can be resolved by installing the CLI in a higher directory to prevent

reaching the Windows max filepath length.

See [#1221](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/1221#issuecomment-258290204)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Known warning

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You may see the following warning message during install and execution of `az`.
```
/usr/local/az/envs/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/pep425tags.py:30:
RuntimeWarning: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/az/envs/default/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
warnings.warn("{0}".format(e), RuntimeWarning)
```

See [#348](https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/348)

See also [pypa/pip#1074](https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1074)

Errors with curl redirection

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If you get an error with the curl command regarding the `-L` parameter or an error
saying `Object Moved`, try using the full url instead of the aka.ms url:
```shell
# If you see this:
$ curl -L https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCli | bash
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 175 100 175 0 0 562 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 560
bash: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
'ash: line 1: `<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>

# Try this instead:

$ curl https://azurecliprod.blob.core.windows.net/install | bash
```

Errors on install with cffi or cryptography

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If you get errors on installation on **OS X**, upgrade pip by typing:

```shell
pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pip
```

If you get errors on installation on **Fedora or CentOS** such as `No module named
'_cffi_backend'`,
install `python3-cffi` by typing:
```shell
sudo yum install -y python3-cffi
```
If your system does not provide the `python3-cffi` RPM package, you can install the
`cffi` package with `pip`:
```shell
sudo pip3 install cffi --target /usr/lib64/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/
```

If you get errors on installation on **Debian or Ubuntu** such as the examples

below,
install libssl-dev and libffi-dev by typing:

```shell
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev
```

Also install Python Dev for your version of Python.

Python 2:

```shell
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev
```

Python 3:

```shell
sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev
```

Ubuntu 15 may require `build-essential` also:

```shell
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
```

**Example Errors**

```shell

Downloading cffi-1.5.2.tar.gz (388kB)

100% |################################| 389kB 3.9MB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

No working compiler found, or bogus compiler options

passed to the compiler from Python's distutils module.
See the error messages above.
(If they are about -mno-fused-madd and you are on OS/X 10.8,
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22313407/ .)
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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-
77i2fido/cffi/
```

```shell
#include <openssl/e_os2.h>
^
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

Failed building wheel for cryptography

```

See Stack Overflow question - [Failed to install Python Cryptography package with
PIP and setup.py](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22073516/failed-to-install-
python-cryptography-package-with-pip-and-setup-py)