The 'google-api-python-client' distribution was not found and is required by the application with pyinstaller

Question

I am currently trying to build an app with pyinstaller. I have gotten the error The \'google-api-python-client\' distribution was not found and is required by the appl

Answer 1

make sure that pip is linked to pip3 (Python 3) and not pip2 (Python2). On many OS(es) and distros, that's still the case.

Check if that solves your problem:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

If it did then add an alias to your .bashrc that links pip to pip3 and not pip2.

e.g.

echo "alias pip='pip3'" >> ~/.bashrc