sphinx-quickstart not found, how to fix it

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Andreas Flöter
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Hello,

I am trying to run sphinx-quickstart from within PyCharm. But I get the following error. If I run the command on the bash command line it is found as /usr/bin/sphinx-quickstart. I installed PyCharm under /opt.

Does anybody have a suggestion for me how I can fix this?

/usr/bin/python2.7 /opt/pycharm-4.5/helpers/pycharm/pycharm_load_entry_point.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/pycharm-4.5/helpers/pycharm/pycharm_load_entry_point.py", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point(dist, "console_scripts", name)()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 546, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2665, in load_entry_point
    raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group, name),))
ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'sphinx-quickstart') not found

Process finished with exit code 1

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It looks like you are using your system Python, and that you installed sphinx using your system pip. As a suggestion, make a virtual environment for your Python project, tell PyCharm to use that virtual Python for that project, and install Sphinx into that virtual environment.
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Andreas Flöter
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Hello Paul,

Thanks for your feedback.

Actually I am using the Sphinx which is installed with the system RPMs. My PyCharm is running on openSUSE 13.1.

Those are the package and the path to Sphinx.

srv:~> rpm -qa|grep -i sphinx
python-Sphinx-1.3.1-80.1.noarch
python-sphinx_rtd_theme-0.1.8-5.1.noarch
python-django-sphinx-2.2.3-1.4.noarch
srv:~> :~> which sphinx-quickstart
/usr/bin/sphinx-quickstart
srv:~> which sphinx-quickstart
/usr/bin/sphinx-quickstart


My expectation is that PyCharm would be able to use the installed Python and the installed Sphinx as they are both in the standard paths.

I will try your suggestion with virtual environment but actually I am was hoping that PyCharm could be configured to use the correct path of the installed system.
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