How to install ranger via pip

ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.
https://github.com/ranger/ranger

Generally, the installation of ranger is through the package manager. For example, the apt package manager can be installed through the following command:

sudo apt install ranger

But sometimes there is no sudo ranger cannot start correctly because of the python2 python3 between python and 0618a4a6c21710.

At this time, we can install pip

But the following command will not work ❌

pip install ranger

The following command is correct ✅

pip install ranger-fm

There is no pypi about the inconsistency between the package name of 0618a4a6c2177b and the time when the package was imported.

If you want to know more knowledge points, please see this pip multi-version management under Linux

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─➤  ranger
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/ranger", line 36, in <module>
    import ranger  # NOQA pylint: disable=import-self,wrong-import-position
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ranger'

╰─➤  pip uninstall ranger-fm
Found existing installation: ranger-fm 1.9.3
Uninstalling ranger-fm-1.9.3:
  Would remove:
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/ranger
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/rifle
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/*
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger_fm-1.9.3-py3.9.egg-info
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/applications/ranger.desktop
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/CHANGELOG.md
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/HACKING.md
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/README.md
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/colorschemes.md
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/colorschemes/default.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/colorschemes/jungle.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/colorschemes/snow.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/commands.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/rc.conf
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/rifle.conf
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/config/scope.sh
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/README
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/fish_automatic_cd.fish
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_avfs.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_chmod_keybindings.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_fasd_add.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_file_filter.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_hello_world.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_ipc.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_linemode.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_new_macro.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_new_sorting_method.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_pmount.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/plugin_pmount_dynamic.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/rc_emacs.conf
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/rifle_different_file_opener.conf
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/rifle_sxiv.sh
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/shell_automatic_cd.sh
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/shell_subshell_notice.sh
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/examples/vim_file_chooser.vim
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/tools/convert_papermode_to_metadata.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/tools/performance_test.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/tools/print_colors.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/doc/ranger/tools/print_keys.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/man/man1/ranger.1
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/share/man/man1/rifle.1
  Would not remove (might be manually added):
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/release.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Collections/RangeBucketMap.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Collections/RangeMap.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Collections/RangeSet.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Collections/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Range/Cut.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Range/Range.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/Range/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/src/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Collections/CollectionsTestSuite.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Collections/RangeBucketMapTest.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Collections/RangeMapTest.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Collections/RangeSetTest.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Collections/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Range/CutTest.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Range/RangeTest.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Range/RangeTestSuite.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/Range/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/__init__.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/test/src/mainTestSuite.py
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ranger/version.py
Proceed (Y/n)? n

In [4]: import sys

In [5]: sys.path
Out[5]:
['/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python39.zip',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload',
 '',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages',
 '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/IPython/extensions',
 '/Users/bot/.ipython']