django can't find new sqlite version? (SQLite 3.8.3 or later is required (found 3.7.17))

I got the same error in CentOS 7.6 and Python 3.7.3 versions. I think you are using Django 2.2.* some version. In latest of Django 2.2, they changed the SQLIte version, that cause of your problem.

This is the release notes of Django 2.2 about SQLite.

The minimum supported version of SQLite is increased from 3.7.15 to 3.8.3.

So I found 3 steps to solve this problem,

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• Downgrade Django Version

So you can install latest version of Django 2.1 by using this command, which mean you’re going to downgrade your Django version.

pip install Django==2.1.*

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• Upgrading SQLite on CentOS to 3.8.3 or Later

or you can followup below steps as well to keep the latest version Django. I directly get the steps from Upgrading SQLite on CentOS to 3.8.3 or Later article.

You can download the latest sqlite version from here.

wget https://www.sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-autoconf-3280000.tar.gz
tar zxvf sqlite-autoconf-3280000.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

We’ve installed to the latest version, but the problem is same. Here,

>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.7.17'

In the article, they’ve mentioned about LD_RUN_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH paths.

Then make sure to compile python again using the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable.
It is better to use this variable over LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Using LD_LIBRARY_PATH – whenever python is run it will look for linked libraries with that path.
What we want is for the libraries to be cooked into python at link time – compile time.

So based on the article, we can do the similar thing,

cd /opt/Python-x.y.z
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib  ./configure
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib make
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib make altinstall

Then try again,

>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.31.1'

Here we go, one thing they’ve mentioned,

If you do not use LD_RUN_PATH, then you have to make sure that the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable is set to /usr/local/lib for every user that is going to run python – which can be really annoying to do.

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• testing a Django 2.2 website with SQLite3 on CentOS 7
  

This is same as the previous one and based on LD_LIBRARY_PATH approach. Here is the steps from the article,

$ wget https://www.sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-3240000.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf sqlite-autoconf-3240000.tar.gz
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install
$
$ python3.6 -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version)"
3.7.17
$
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
$ python3.6 -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version)"
3.24.0

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If the last two steps didn’t work, please comment below with the error you got and I’ll find another solution for you.

I had the same issue and I struggled with it for a while. For me the best solution was to comment out DATABASES section in settings.py file.

As I don’t want to use SQLite database then issue does not exist anymore. Later on you can update DATABASE information with the db that is valid for you.

I solved a similar situation with the following patches of code. Follow these steps that I used on my own centos7 & everything should be alright.
Just remember to let your centos7 know that you are calling python3 not just python otherwise it will call the default python2 followed by a series of errors in your virtualenv.

Installing python3 (from source):

cd ~
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.3/Python-3.7.3.tar.xz
tar xJf Python-3.7.3.tar.xz
cd Python-3.7.3
./configure
make && make install
export PATH=$HOME/opt/python-3.7.3/bin:$PATH

Then run: source .bash_profile

Confirming by

python3 --version
Python 3.7.3 

Installing your sqlite3 (from source):

$ cd ~
$ wget https://www.sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-autoconf-3290000.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf sqlite-autoconf-3290000.tar.gz
cd sqlite-autoconf-3290000

$./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/sqlite
$ make && make install

Now this is what you should also remember to do for centos7 know where to look for your python3 and not defaulting to python2. On your .bash_profile copy & past this piece of code or edit the paths accordingly:

export PATH=$HOME/opt/sqlite/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/sqlite/lib
export LD_RUN_PATH=$HOME/opt/sqlite/lib

Make it permanent by running: source .bash_profile
and you are done with sqlite3 version >= 3.8. Confirm it by:

sqlite3 --version 
3.29.0 2019-07-10 17:32:03

And then you can continue to use python3 to install python3 modules like django-2.2.

python3.7 -m pip3 install virtualenv

(myvenv37)[me@test my_project]$ python3.7 -m pip3 install django
Successfully installed django-2.2.3 pytz-2019.1 sqlparse-0.3.0

Remember, it is

PYTHON3.7 -m pip3 install MODULE

(myvenv37)[me@test my_project]$ python3.7 manage.py runserver 

and the server should be running.

So, to conclude, in the case above it was migrate, & should look like this:

(venv)[me@test my_project]$ python3.7 manage.py migrate

django 2.2 need sqlite version >= 3.8.3

so the solution is update your sqlite:

1. download from sqlite3, select source_code version
2. tar -zxvf sqlite-xxx.tar.gz && cd xx
3. ./configure && make && make install
4. mv /usr/bin/sqlite3 /usr/bin/sqlite3.bak
5. mv xxx/sqlite3 /usr/bin/sqlite3
6. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib" and write it into ~/.bashrc

test1 :

sqlite3 --version 

should be your version

test2:

$python
>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version

should be your version

another option is to use atomic repo

wget -O - http://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
yum install  atomic-sqlite
LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/opt/atomicorp/atomic/root/usr/lib64/' python3
>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.8.5'

i had recently same problem
My solution was to change source code site-packagesdjangodbbackendssqlite3base.py line around 68 So far no side effects.

def check_sqlite_version():
if Database.sqlite_version_info < (3, 7, 3):
raise ImproperlyConfigured(‘SQLite 3.8.3 or later is required (found %s).’ % Database.sqlite_version)

As this was about Centos7, you can use the Fedora package to upgrade the Centos sqlite package:

wget https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/sqlite/3.8.11/1.fc21/x86_64/sqlite-3.8.11-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm

sudo yum install sqlite-3.8.11-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm

(from: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/c9hy5w/trying_to_upgrade_sqlite_3717_to_version_38_on/ezrtbkm/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)

This seems to work, although I’m never sure if doing this is really an ideal solution to a problem or not. I guess if you’re not actually using SQLite, then this at least passes the version check and so gets you working.

You will only get make it worse with errors like multilib and other incompatibilities if keeps forcing the installation of sqlite 3.8.3 or higher. Just as Theo commented, the best approach is to comment the line #66 on the sqlite3/base.py (file within django) that triggers the method named check_sqlite_version().

This should be just warning that you are using a minor patch instead of raise an Exception (ImproperlyConfigured).

PD: Just make sure to document it!

I was having trouble with the above solutions on an Amazon Linux 2 instance and found that what was installed from my various attempts to update were causing version conflicts.
Initially I had this:

$ python3 --version
Python 3.7.9
$ python3
>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.7.17'
>>> exit()

And sudo yum install sqlite-3.8.11-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm failed to install with this message:

I resolved it by the following steps:

sudo yum list | grep sqlite

These two packages were preventing updates due to conflict.

sudo yum autoremove sqlite-devel To uninstall the extraneous package.

sudo yum install sqlite-3.8.11-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm To update the version.

sudo yum list | grep sqlite

New list of updated sqlite packages:

$ python3
>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.8.11'
>>> exit()

After few hours of searching I solved it using one command inside my virtual environment:

pip install pysqlite3-binary

You can check github here and article(a bit outdated) here.

I also found here that you should then place the following lines of code in your settings.py:

__import__('pysqlite3')
import sys
sys.modules['sqlite3'] = sys.modules.pop('pysqlite3')

but for me it worked without it.

I answered this question here: ImproperlyConfigured('SQLite 3.8.3 or later is required (found %s).' % Database.sqlite_version)

I solved this issue by upgrading my version of sqlite3 using this command:

cd ~ && wget https://www.sqlite.org/2020/sqlite-autoconf-3320100.tar.gz && tar xvfz sqlite-autoconf-3320100.tar.gz && cd sqlite-autoconf-3320100 && ./configure && make && make install

I am using ElasticBeanstalk for my setup, so I added a .config file to the .ebextensions folder and put this in it:

option_settings:
  aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment:
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH: "/usr/local/lib"
commands:
  01_upgrade_sqlite:
    command: "cd ~ && wget https://www.sqlite.org/2020/sqlite-autoconf-3320100.tar.gz && tar xvfz sqlite-autoconf-3320100.tar.gz && cd sqlite-autoconf-3320100 && ./configure && make && make install"

Many thanks to Bejür for adding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable here in order to get it to work.

I make a fixed downgrade Django

pip3 install Django==2.1.*