streamlink fails to run

[omen23]

Bug Report

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Description

after installing the development version i cant either use pip or apt to install and run streamlink

Expected / Actual behavior

streamlink will run

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/streamlink", line 7, in <module>
    from streamlink_cli.main import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/streamlink_cli/main.py", line 21, in <module>
    from streamlink import __version__ as streamlink_version
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/streamlink/__init__.py", line 86, in <module>
    from .api import streams
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/streamlink/api.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .session import Streamlink
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/streamlink/session.py", line 9, in <module>
    from streamlink.logger import StreamlinkLogger, Logger
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/streamlink/logger.py", line 7, in <module>
    from streamlink.compat import is_py2
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/streamlink/compat.py", line 48, in <module>
    from backports.shutil_which import which
ImportError: No module named shutil_which

Reproduction steps / Explicit stream URLs to test

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Log output

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[gravyboat]

Take a look at #1358 (comment), it has some options for what you can do to resolve this.

[omen23]

fixed it with reinstalling python setup.py install --record files.txt
cat files.txt | xargs sudo rm -rf
and reinstalling sudo apt install --reinstall python2.7 and python3

[omen23]

lol now i did what was suggested and now if i run pipthis happens

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>
    from pip import main
ImportError: cannot import name main

[omen23]

nothing fixes the error ...

[gravyboat]

That's a pip issue that was caused by the pip maintainers a while back, check out this stack overflow post for details and solutions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49836676/error-after-upgrading-pip-cannot-import-name-main

[omen23]

thanks - your post fixed my problem Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 21:10 Uhr schrieb Forrest <notifications@github.com

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