Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement selenium; No matching distribution found for selenium while installing Selenium on Python3.6.5

Question

pip install selenium

throws error as:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement selenium;
No matching distribution found for selenium

Please guide as to how to proceed

Answer 1

This error message...

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement selenium;
No matching distribution found for selenium

...implies that the Python Client was unable to install the Selenium related modules.

Your main issue probhably with either with the pip version or the Python installation.

Solution

• Uninstall the current Python installation.
• As you are on Windows 7 professional OS use CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores before the new installation of Python Client.
• Download and install a fresh version of compatible Python 3.6.5 binary/executable.

• Ensure you are using latest version of pip (latest version 18.0 is available now):

  C:\Users\username>python -m pip install --upgrade pip
  Collecting pip
    Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5f/25/e52d3f31441505a5f3af41213346e5b6c221c9e086a166f3703d2ddaf940/pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB)
      100% |¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 1.3MB 544kB/s
  Installing collected packages: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 10.0.1
      Uninstalling pip-10.0.1:
        Successfully uninstalled pip-10.0.1
  Successfully installed pip-18.0
  

• Install latest version of Selenium:

  C:\Users\username>pip install selenium
  Collecting selenium
    Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b8/53/9cafbb616d20c7624ff31bcabd82e5cc9823206267664e68aa8acdde4629/selenium-3.14.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (898kB)
      100% |¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 901kB 380kB/s
  Requirement not upgraded as not directly required: urllib3 in c:\python\lib\site-packages (from selenium) (1.22)
  Installing collected packages: selenium
    Found existing installation: selenium 3.12.0
      Uninstalling selenium-3.12.0:
        Successfully uninstalled selenium-3.12.0
  Successfully installed selenium-3.14.0      
  

• Or:

  C:\Python35\Scripts\pip.exe install selenium