Unable to open cqlsh Apache cassandra - ImportError: No module named cqlshlib

Question

I am new to cassandra ! Have downloaded the apacahe cassandra 2.1.2 package and initialy was able to connect to cqlsh but then after installing CCM i am unable to connect ,

Answer 1

Workaround:

I assume that you have already installed Cassandra and cqlshlib has been installed in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

`ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cqlshlib /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cqlshlib` 

(replace /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages with your python directory).

More Detail:

One possibility is that your default python is not in /usr/bin/. Say it has been installed in /usr/local/bin/. However, Cassandra seems to install cqlshlib in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages for some reason. As a result, the default python cannot find cqlshlib package when you run cqlsh command.