MacOS - dotenv not found after installation

[Guneetsinghtuli]

I have been trying to install Nominatim locally using this Documentation. After successful compilation when I tried running nominatim on the command line. I get an ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'.
Even after installing Python-dotenv. I still am facing the same error, Would be really helpful if someone could help me out with this.

[mtmail]

So this command python3 -c "from dotenv import dotenv_values" should return no error. How did you install dotenv, with pip3? Is pip3 in the same path as python3 (which pip3; which python3)? Which version of Nominatim are you using, master from github or a stable release (https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/releases) ? Which version of MacOS and which architecture (Intel vs Apple Silicon), I think uname -a prints that information?

I seem to remember somebody installed nominatim successful on MacOS but can't find the thread. Nominatim isn't officially supported on MacOS but could work.

Unrelated: If possible copy&paste the text instead of a screenshot. That will help other users looking for the same error message in the future.

[Guneetsinghtuli]

guneetsingh@GUNEETs-MacBook-Air ~ % python3 -c "from dotenv import dotenv_values"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'
guneetsingh@GUNEETs-MacBook-Air ~ % python3 --version
Python 3.9.0

Path of pip3 and python3
guneetsingh@GUNEETs-MacBook-Air build % which pip3; which python3 /usr/local/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/python3

I tried to install dotenv with pip3 using the command pip3 install python-dotenv as it was mentioned in the docs.
I am using the Nominatim from the master branch and my architecture is intel based MacOS
the output from the command uname -a is this

Darwin GUNEETs-MacBook-Air.local 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Mon Aug 22 20:17:10 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.49~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Maybe the next documentation i am gonna write will be on installing it on MacOS

[lonvia]

Please check again that you really have installed python-dotenv. There is another package called dotenv which is completely different.

If that is okay, then there is an issue with however pip is set up. I recommend you switch to using a virtualenv for the Python libraries.