Question

So i trying install setuptools on a new server, so i got with

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg

and trying to sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg in the directory where the file is located and I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named setuptools.command.easy_install

I couldn’t find any way of debugging this anywhere.

When I try

import sys
from setuptools.command.easy_install import bootstrap
sys.exit(bootstrap()) 

I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named setuptools.command.easy_install

When I enter sys.path in python interpreter it gives me the following:

['', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-linux3', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

Answer 1

You could try a few different things:

• move the file to a different directory, cd to the same directory, and again try running sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg.

• Open the python2.7 interactive prompt (just run python2.7) in the same directory as where the file resides. Then run:

  import sys
  from setuptools.command.easy_install import bootstrap
  sys.exit(bootstrap())
  

  to attempt the installation manually

• If that still doesn’t work, run python2.7 and run the following python code, and add the information shown to your question:

  import sys
  import setuptools
  
  print 'Path:', sys.path
  print 'setuptools package:', setuptools.__file__
  

Last but not least, test that the downloaded egg was not somehow corrupted or truncated. Test for the md5 hash and size:

$ md5 setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg 
MD5 (setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg) = fe1f997bc722265116870bc7919059ea
$ ls -l setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg 
-rw-r--r--  1 own  grp  332005 Jul  8  2010 setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg 

If they don’t match, redownload the file and try again.