ImportError: cannot import name 'genai' from 'google' (unknown location)

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i have a problem with the conecction with genai, i already installed all the libraryes that i need to deploy my project. When I run the proyect in my local server it works but i´m trying to run on a Linux Web server and it doesn´t work.

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@JUAN_SALAZAR,

please check the installation path of your libraries. Make sure they are available.
for better clarity, i would suggest to you use python “virtual environments”.
create a virtual env and then install the “google-genai” package using pip. that should solve the problem in general.

if the problem still persists, please give more details on the error messages you got.

hope that answers your question.

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i fixed the problem changing the way of importing my libraries.

the incorrect import:
from google import genai
from genai import types

the correct import:
import google.generativeai as genai
from google.generativeai import types

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import google.generativeai as genai

is importing but google.generativeai doesn’t have the attribute Client.

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You can simply use this pip install google-genai, then use client = genai.Client(api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY")

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ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement google-genai (from versions: none)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for google-genai

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I am facing the same error. Anyone able to resolve this?.

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I was also facing the issue when using
google-generativeai in my requirements.txt and doing these imports:

  • from google import genai
  • from google.genai import types

Turns out these are the correct imports, I just installed the wrong package. All I had to do was replace google-generativeai with google-genai instead, and it solved the issue.

Doing these imports as shown in an earlier answer by Juan:

  • import google.generativeai as genai
  • from google.generativeai import types

messed with the code as it said it can’t use “Client” anymore, I believe these imports are older and deprecated according to this:

For the full tutorial on setting everything up, follow this, and everything should work:

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this is deprecated and the recommended one from google is the new library google-genai
check this link :