pip install fail with SSL certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)

Question:

I am not able to install any external python module through pip install.
I have installed python correctly but if I use pip_install it shows me this error.

Here is the code after I run the pip install pytesseract

 C:Users190560>pip install pytesseract
Collecting pytesseract
  Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)': /simple/pytesseract/
  Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)': /simple/pytesseract/
  Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)': /simple/pytesseract/
  Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)': /simple/pytesseract/
  Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)': /simple/pytesseract/
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pytesseract/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pytesseract/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)) - skipping
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pytesseract (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pytesseract
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:833)'),)) - skipping

How do I solve this problem??

I can partially solve the problem by using this command

pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <package_name>

but I cannot find any pip.ini folder on my computer as suggested by
this question here

Any suggestions to fix this problem permanently??

Asked By: Yash Soni

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Answers:

I have experienced similar issues when I am in a corporate network where a proxy is required for external network access. In this case, we’ll have to tell pip the proxy:

pip --proxy=http://your.corporate.proxy.com  install pytesseract

Another possible cause is due to the pypi domain change. In this case, you can try the solution as below:

pip --index-url=http://pypi.python.org/simple/ --trusted-host pypi.python.org install pytesseract

Another similar case with an excellent answer: pip always fails ssl verification

Answered By: Wang Gang

I had a similar problem and found out to be related to the network IPv6 address. I do not know why. What solved my problem was to disable the IPv6. You can find how to do it here for Windows and MacOS X.

Answered By: y.luis.rojo

On Windows, if using a proxy, temporarily disable it in Control Panel – Internet Options – Connection – LAN settings.

Or permanently bypass proxy (also there in LAN settings) for pypi.org;files.pythonhosted.org

LAN settings - exceptions pypi.org;files.pythonhosted.org

Answered By: rustyx

Once I struggled a lot for 3 days ,Nothing worked then I found this solution.

Possible solution is to instruct Python to use your Windows Certificate Store instead of the built-in store in the certifi package. You can do that by installing python-certifi-win32:

pip install python-certifi-win32

Then python will going to be use the same certificates as your browsers do.

Answered By: Dileep Verma
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