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I had the same error as twine upload TypeError and checked my twine version to find out it's 1.10. 

$ twine --version
twine version 1.10.0 (pkginfo: 1.2.1, requests: 2.18.4, setuptools:
39.2.0, requests-toolbelt: 0.8.0, tqdm: 4.19.5)

However, with pip list I find that twine is version 1.11. 

$ pip list
...
twine    1.11.0
...

I tried:

$ sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade twine

(see here)

and found that twine is already being the latest release (1.10.0-1) and could not upgrade to 1.11. twine is located here:

$ which twine
/usr/bin/twine

How can I upgrade twine?

Ollie
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2 Answers2

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When you install the packages via apt-get, it installs whatever version was packaged. Not the latest upstream version.

To get pip's form of twine, you have to first remove twine that was installed by the repositories, and then use pip/pip3 to install.

sudo apt-get remove twine
sudo pip3 install twine

If the second command says pip3: not found then try using just pip instead of pip3.

This should then install the version from the PyPi repositories. You may have to close and reopen your terminal session to get the 'new' version of Twine picked up. (This is, assuming, that the pip version of Twine puts a binary into a location in your PATH environment variable; if it is not then this will require additional work to get working the same way as the packaged version of twine.)

Thomas Ward
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I just bumped into this issue on Ubuntu 24.04. Was trying to package something with hatchling but there was no way. However, in this release the solution proposed by Thomas Ward does not apply, as the ad hoc use of package managers is not longer allowed:

$ sudo pip3 install twine
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.


If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.

If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.

See /usr/share/doc/python3.12/README.venv for more information.




note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.

Therefore building and packaging must be executed from a virtual environment:

sudo apt purge twine

python3 -m venv env-build


source env-build/bin/activate


pip3 install build twine
Luís de Sousa
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