# No module named inference when trying to use Python InferencePipeline

**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/no-module-named-inference-when-trying-to-use-python-inferencepipeline/8815
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**Created:** [February 28, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/no-module-named-inference-when-trying-to-use-python-inferencepipeline/8815 "2025-02-28T02:34:33Z")
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### Author: ![LouNL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@LouNL](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/LouNL)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/no-module-named-inference-when-trying-to-use-python-inferencepipeline/8815/1 "2025-02-28T02:34:33Z")

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I’m trying to follow some of the instructions here, specifically the InferencePipeline quickstart:

> **[InferencePipeline - Roboflow Inference](https://inference.roboflow.com/using_inference/inference_pipeline/#quickstart)**
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> Scalable, on-device computer vision deployment.

I ran “pip install inference” and it completed without errors.

In my project I have:  
from inference import InferencePipeline

This is erroring out with:  
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘inference’

Am I missing a module?

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### Author: ![Grzegorz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/grzegorz/32/2877_2.png) [@Grzegorz](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Grzegorz)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/no-module-named-inference-when-trying-to-use-python-inferencepipeline/8815/2 "2025-02-28T12:51:14Z")

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Hi @LouNL ,

Can you share what version of Python you are trying to utilize? Currently `inference` is supporting following Python versions: `3.9`, `3.10`, `3.11`, `3.12`

> That pip install didn’t appear to install any modules named inference.

It is possible `pip` encountered errors when installing inference. Can you post full `pip` output when running `pip install inference`?

Thanks,  
Grzegorz

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### Author: ![LouNL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@LouNL](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/LouNL)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/no-module-named-inference-when-trying-to-use-python-inferencepipeline/8815/3 "2025-02-28T13:55:12Z")

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Hi Grzegorz, thanks. It’s Python3. I tried it again on an Ubuntu VM, and that one is working for me. I think it’s my own Python windows install.

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/no-module-named-inference-when-trying-to-use-python-inferencepipeline/8815/4 "2025-03-07T16:07:18Z")

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