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When I run python abc.py it runs fine

But when I do sudo python abc.py then it shows some packages missing error. Of the several import errors, here's the one:

ImportError: No module named numpy

Why?

What I think is that those packages are installed with normal user(ubuntu) permissions and not root permissions. If this is the case, how should I get over with this? Do I have to install all the packages again with root access?

Note: everything I discussed here is w.r.t ec2 linux ubuntu machine

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  • What do you mean by "Installed with normal user permissions"? How did you install the package? You should either install it via Ubuntu's package manager (apt-get) or via easy_install or pip as root. Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 11:25
  • I installed packages using pip install package-name worked for me Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 11:26

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The sudo environment may not contain your PYTHONPATH

/etc/sudoers contains Defaults env_reset. Simply add Defaults env_keep += "PYTHONPATH" to /etc/sudoers and it will work just fine with sudo.

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it says W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file will that not cause any problem?
read this - how to edit sudoers: digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/…
this is not working for me, when i do echo $PYTHONPATH this is giving me no output - BLANK
python on the system was installed using Anaconda in the system
Try this: add export PYTHONPATH=/your/custom/path to ~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc. add PYTHONPATH to Defaults env_keep += "ENV1 ENV2 ..." in sudoers file. remove Defaults !env_reset from sudoers file if present

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