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Solved: Pyperclip could not find a copy/paste mechanism for your system.

OS: Debian 9
Python version: 3.5

After import pyperclip module, encounter error message ' Pyperclip could not find a copy/paste mechanism for your system. '.

Solution: install xsel utility

$ sudo apt install xsel

then reboot Python IDLE3, import pyperclip, solved.

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Install pip/pyperclip:

$ sudo apt install python3-pip
$ sudo pip3 install pyperclip

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  1. Awesome! Thanks for posting this. Solved my problem. :-)

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  2. Thank you for this Catinsunshine.

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  3. Reference : https://pypi.org/project/pyperclip/

    On Linux, this module makes use of the xclip or xsel commands, which should come with the os. Otherwise run “sudo apt-get install xclip” or “sudo apt-get install xsel” (Note: xsel does not always seem to work.)

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  4. Hi...I am working on Centos 7, I already installed xsel on my system but still facing the same issue with pyperclip , can anyone suggest something to get me out of this?

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