Question

Easy_install and Pip doesn’t work anymore on python 2.7, when I try to do:

sudo easy_install pip

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in <module>
    parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
  File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: distribute==0.6.15

And when I try:

sudo pip install [package]

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in <module>
    parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
  File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==0.8.2

I’ve already install both of them (and yes, first deleted them), but no result…

Thanks!

(I tried already this post)

Answer 1

Try

  sudo easy_install Distribute 

and if that exists, but is too old

  sudo easy_install -U Distribute

Looks like either Distribute/setuptools (it’s old name) is messed up or Python package settings. If either of these do not help, try removing the full Python 2.7 installation and reinstall everything from the scratch.

Possible reasons for the mess is that you have used both sudo easy_install / sudo pip and Linux distribution packages to mix and match system-wide installation packages. You should use virtualenv instead if you use pip/easy_install (no sudo needed)

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv