flask fab create-app returns error

[ajharris]

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Environment

Flask-Appbuilder version: 4.3.10

pip freeze output: apispec==6.3.0 attrs==23.1.0 Babel==2.13.1 blinker==1.7.0 click==8.1.7 colorama==0.4.6 Deprecated==1.2.14 dnspython==2.4.2 email-validator==1.3.1 Flask==2.2.5 Flask-AppBuilder==4.3.10 Flask-Babel==2.0.0 Flask-JWT-Extended==4.5.3 Flask-Limiter==3.5.0 Flask-Login==0.6.3 Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.5.1 Flask-WTF==1.2.1 greenlet==3.0.1 idna==3.6 importlib-resources==6.1.1 itsdangerous==2.1.2 Jinja2==3.1.2 jsonschema==4.20.0 jsonschema-specifications==2023.11.1 limits==3.7.0 markdown-it-py==3.0.0 MarkupSafe==2.1.3 marshmallow==3.20.1 marshmallow-sqlalchemy==0.26.1 mdurl==0.1.2 ordered-set==4.1.0 packaging==23.2 prison==0.2.1 Pygments==2.17.2 PyJWT==2.8.0 python-dateutil==2.8.2 pytz==2023.3.post1 PyYAML==6.0.1 referencing==0.31.0 rich==13.7.0 rpds-py==0.13.1 six==1.16.0 SQLAlchemy==1.4.50 SQLAlchemy-Utils==0.41.1 typing_extensions==4.8.0 Werkzeug==2.3.8 wrapt==1.16.0 WTForms==3.1.1

Describe the expected results

Create a simple app

flask fab create-app

Describe the actual results

error: No suck command 'fab'

Error: Could not locate a Flask application. Use the 'flask --app' option, 'FLASK_APP' environment variable, or a 'wsgi.py' or 'app.py' file in the current directory.

Usage: flask [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Try 'flask --help' for help.

Error: No such command 'fab'.

Steps to reproduce

[ThomasP0815]

Which python version do you use ?

[Yoyasp]

Im sorry, i can't reproduce your error. After installing your pip freeze it just works...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/fab$ flask fab create-app
Your new app name: 

Im using python 3.10.12 and pip 22.0.2.

Are you sure you are using the right environment (venv/pipenv if using virtual env's) and you installed the packages under the right user?

[jpshackelford]

I saw this on MacOS with a virtual environment and Python 3.12.1 and flask-appbuilder 4.3.10. When I closed the shell and opened another, reloading the virtual environment the prior error Error: No such command 'fab'. became the same error I found in Issue #2131. $ pip install distutils solved it for me.