E: Unable to locate package regex

I'm trying to use the regex package in my python script, using:

import regex as re 

and the package is missing:

$ ./lula2.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./lula2.py", line 13, in <module> import regex as re ImportError: No module named regex 

I'm trying to install it, and receive the following error/failure:

$ sudo apt install regex Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package regex $ sudo apt install python-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package python-pip 

Please let me know how to install regex.

1 Answer

python-pip and python-regex packages are in universe repository. Enable that using:

sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt update 

Then install regex:

sudo apt install python-regex #For Python 2 sudo apt install python3-regex #For Python 3 

If you want to install regex using pip:

• Install pip:

  sudo apt install python-pip #For Python 2 sudo apt install python3-pip #For Python 3 

• And then regex:

  pip install regex #For Python 2 pip3 install regex #For Python 3