Python error when starting Mopidy on Raspberry Pi

General
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Whenever I try to start running mopidy on my raspberry pi, I get the following error:

ERROR: Mopidy requires Python 2.7, but found 3.2.3.

Yet when I run python --version I get the following result Python 2.7.3

What’s going on here?

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I’m guessing that you used pip to install Mopidy? And that pip use Python 3, thus it installed Mopidy into your Python 3’s site-packages directory.

If you run pip --version, it will show you what Python version that pip executable belongs to. For example:

$ pip --version                                                          
pip 1.5.6 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

If this says anything else than “(python 2.7)” you should uninstall Mopidy:

pip uninstall mopidy

And then reinstall using the pip executable matching your python2.7 installation, or using some alternative installation method, like apt-get. Often, you’ll have pip2 and pip3 commands which install’s into your python2's and python3's site-packages, respectively.

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Thank you very much, I stupidly installed something with pip-3.2.

Thank you again for clearing that up!