Unable to run impacket

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Hey guys,

I’m trying to run the MS SQL client from Impacket but I’m getting the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mssqlclient.py”, line 24, in
from impacket.examples import logger
ImportError: No module named impacket.examples

Install impacket by cloning the git repository
I have python3 installed I hope you can help me.

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@JorgeH said:

Hey guys,

I’m trying to run the MS SQL client from Impacket but I’m getting the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mssqlclient.py”, line 24, in
from impacket.examples import logger
ImportError: No module named impacket.examples

Install impacket by cloning the git repository
I have python3 installed I hope you can help me.

There are a lot of threads talking about impacket, assuming this is for Archtype.

There are a few things that could be causing the problem here.

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That’s because the PATH, your user and root maybe not use the same python intepreter to run this program,

In some case, you can solve it by type python3 /path/to/mssqlclient.py rather than run it directly.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mssqlclient.py”, line 24, in
from impacket.examples import logger
ImportError: No module named impacket.examples

Install impacket by cloning the git repository
I have python3 installed I hope you can help me.

I had the same problem.

Run this command to verify your python version
python --version

Once you find that out lets get rid of the files that were made when you pip installed so that we can redo it.
For python 2.7: rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/impacket*
For python 3(replace x once you find the version): rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3.x/dist-packages/impacket*

Great you’re all cleaned up. Now, get rid of your impacket directory
sudo rm -rf impacket

Now we reinstall impacket with git clone.
git clone GitHub - fortra/impacket: Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.

Go into your impacket directory: cd /pathto/impacket

NOW THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT:
For python3 type: sudo pip3 install .
DO NOT FORGET THE PERIOD AT THE END.
For python 2.xx type: sudo pip install .

Then you should be able to use the tool as implied with no problems. I hope this helps!

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this ■■■■ module is killing me.

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Hi there, i tried all of the above and still getting this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/impacket/examples/mssqlclient.py", line 169, in <module>
    ms_sql.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/impacket/tds.py", line 531, in connect
    af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = socket.getaddrinfo(self.server, self.port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 953, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
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I see you’re using Python 3.9 want to try my advice in the above thread but instead of python 3 use 3.9?

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When I tried all the above, as previously commented, I am still getting the same message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/impacket/examples/mssqlclient.py”, line 169, in
ms_sql.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/impacket/tds.py”, line 531, in connect
af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = socket.getaddrinfo(self.server, self.port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM)[0]
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):