problem with pycharm interperter and installing packages

Question

I have a problem with installing packages in my pycharm project.

Until today everything worked perfectly, I could install packages and everything worked. I didn't change anything but now everytime I try to install new package I get an error

pycharm message 1

pycharm message 2

But I do have pip installed in python interpreter interpreter packages

I'm trying to understand what is the problem and how to fix it. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but the interpreter is python 3.7 and the weird thing is when I'm checking the version on my cmd it's 3.8.3 but when I checked on Windows's apps it showed python 3.7.3

python version from cmd

Is there a reason it happened just randomly after it worked perfectly in the last couple of weeks I worked on the program?

Maybe it's because i updated the pip?

Answer 1

You can try few things

1. Running same command in terminal. If it doesn't work then please locate your pip.exe which is generally in the Scripts folder right next to python.exe. Make sure the path/to/folder is in environment variables

2. Reset project settings. Try deleting .idea directory in your project. This folder is created by pycharm to save settings. Open the project folder again in pycharm and set the interpreter.

Answer 2

Did you try to install directly with pip in the terminal ? If it doesn't work maybe you should reinstall it