Overall, pip is working fine on my server. I have just installed the package waitress and the installation seems successful. I checked it with pip freeze: $ pip freeze | grep waitress waitress==2.1.0 Waitress also can be imported via python3: >>> import waitress >>> However, waitress-serve cannot be executed: $ waitress-serve Command 'waitress-serve' not found, but can be installed with: apt install python3-waitress Please ask your administrator. I am not a root user on this server. Could this be a reason why the package was installed partially, or am I speculating here? Since I am not authorized to run apt install and since the simple pip install worked in my virtualenv, I would like to be able to get this to work without using the suggested apt install python3-waitress command. Continue reading...