Python pip install fails invalid command egg info

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I find that recently often when I try to install a Python package using pip  I get the error s  below   I found a reference online that one has to use  python2 setup py install  from the download directory  and indeed find that this will then work if I manually find and download the package  from pypi    But  I don t know where pip is downloading packages to  and or why it is failing in this manner   I tried to do a pip upgrade  but it also failed in a similar manner  with a bunch of  Unknown distribution option  errors  entry points  zip safe  test suite  tests require     pip 1 0 1 ActivePython 2 7   Trying to use ActiveState s pypm fails  because they have a smaller library base  and it doesn t include these packages   C  test gt pip install requests-oauth Downloading unpacking requests-oauth   Downloading requests-oauth-0 4 1 tar gz   Running setup py egg info for package requests-oauth     E  Plang ActivePython lib distutils dist py 267  UserWarning  Unknown distribution option   zip safe        warnings warn msg      E  Plang ActivePython lib distutils dist py 267  UserWarning  Unknown distribution option   install requires        warnings warn msg      usage  -c  global opts  cmd1  cmd1 opts   cmd2  cmd2 opts              or  -c --help  cmd1 cmd2             or  -c --help-commands        or  -c cmd --help      error  invalid command  egg info      Complete output from command python setup py egg info      E  Plang ActivePython lib distutils dist py 267  UserWarning  Unknown distribution option   zip safe    warnings warn msg   E  Plang ActivePython lib distutils dist py 267  UserWarning  Unknown distribution option   install requires    warnings warn msg   usage  -c  global opts  cmd1  cmd1 opts   cmd2  cmd2 opts          or  -c --help  cmd1 cmd2         or  -c --help-commands    or  -c cmd --help  error  invalid command  egg info

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pip install -U setuptools and easy install was putting egg-info in the wrong directory   Then I just reinstalled apt-get install python-dev  Let me install the drivers I want after that

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For me upgrading pip from 8 1 1 to 9 0 1 solved this problem   You can run something like sudo -H pip2 install --upgrade pip to upgrade your pip version

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I just convert liquidki s answer into Ubuntu commands  On an Ubuntu based system it works    sudo apt -y install python-pip pip install -U pip sudo pip install -U setuptools

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This error can occur when you trying to install pycurl   In this case you should do  sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev librtmp-dev    founded here  https   gist github com lxneng 1031014

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As distribute has been merged back into setuptools  it is now recommended to install upgrade setuptools instead    sudo  pip install --upgrade setuptools

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Bear in mind you may have to do pip install --upgrade Distribute if you have it installed already and your pip may be called pip2 for Python2 on some systems  it is on mine

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Looks like the default easy install is broken in its current location     which easy install  usr bin easy install  A way to overcome this is to use the easy install in site packages  For example     sudo python  Library Python 2 7 site-packages easy install py boto

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I had this issue  as well as some other issues with Brewed Python on OS nbsp X v10 9  Mavericks    sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools   didn t work for me  and I think my setuptools distribute setup was botched   I finally got it to work by running  sudo easy install -U setuptools

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I know this is an older question but here are the steps I used to get cassandra-driver to actually install on Windows 7   Python2  I have windows 10   Python3 at home where I will test this tonight  I have confirmed this also works on Windows 10 with both Python 2 and 3     Problem  Command  python setup py egg info  failed with error code 1 in c  users Frito appdata local temp pip-build-7dgmdc cassandra-driver   TL DR Solution   Installed https   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 44266  Microsoft Visual C   Compiler for Python 2 7    Solution  I d love for someone to explain why this worked    Attempted pip install cassandra-driver and got the above error message Attempted pip install --pre cassandra-driver and got the following error    distutils errors DistutilsError  Setup script exited with error  Microsoft Visual C   9 0 is required  Unable to find vcvarsall bat   Get it from http   aka ms vcpython27  Command  c  users Frito  virtualenvs symdash scripts python exe -u -c  import setuptools  tokenize   file    c   users  Frito  appdata  local  temp  pip-build-sesxxu  cassandra-driver  setup py  exec compile getattr tokenize   open   open    file    read   replace   r n     n      file     exec     install --record  c  users Frito appdata local temp pip-ujsxsk-record install-record txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers c  users Frito  virtualenvs symdash include site python2 7 cassandra-driver   failed with error code 1 in  c  users Frito appdata local temp pip-build-sesxxu cassandra-driver     Installed Microsoft Visual C   Compiler for Python 2 7 Successfully executed pip install --pre cassandra-driver Successfully executed pip uninstall cassandra-driver Successfully executed pip install cassandra-driver   To reiterate  I m not really sure why this worked  Right now my two leading conclusions are that either the C   compiler is required or that running the --pre option the first time installed some dependencies that were missing from the  regular  install  I ll update tonight after work when I have more details

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try the following command   pip install setuptools  28 8 0

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I also meet a similar error message   Command  python setup py egg info  failed with error code 1  when I want to install cairosvg with command pip install cairosvg in a virtual environment   Then I have tried both pip install --upgrade pip and pip install --upgrade setuptools before running pip3 install cairosvg  but I still get this error   I can get rid of this error with sudo in front of the installation command   sudo pip install cairosvg  But note that the command with sudo will install the package for the system python rather than the virtual environment   So  I further check the error message and find that I get the error while installing the cairocffi  Then I install a certain version of cairocffi  refer to this answer  before install cairosvg  That is how I solve my problem

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Install distribute  which comes with egg info   Should be as simple as pip install Distribute   Distribute has been merged into Setuptools as of version 0 7  If you are using a version  lt  0 6  upgrade using pip install --upgrade setuptools or easy install -U setuptools

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None of the above worked for me on Ubuntu nbsp 12 04 LTS  Precise Pangolin   and here s how I fixed it in the end   Download ez setup py from download setuptools  see  Installation Instructions  section  then     sudo python ez setup py   I hope it saves someone some time

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On CentOS 6 5  the short answer from a clean install is   yum -y install python-pip pip install -U pip pip install -U setuptools pip install -U setuptools   You are not seeing double  you must run the setuptools upgrade twice  The long answer is below   Installing the python-pip package using yum brings python-setuptools along as a dependency  It s a pretty old version and hence it s actually installing distribute  0 6 10   After installing a package manager we generally want to update it  so we do pip install -U pip  Current version of pip for me is 1 5 6   Now we go to update setuptools and this version of pip is smart enough to know it should remove the old version of distribute first  It does this  but then instead of installing the latest version of setuptools it installs setuptools  0 6c11    At this point all kinds of things are broken due to this extremely old version of setuptools  but we re actually halfway there  If we now run the exact same command a second time  pip install -U setuptools  the old version of setuptools is removed  and version 5 5 1 is installed  I don t know why pip doesn t take us straight to the new version in one shot  but this is what s happening and hopefully it will help others to see this and know you re not going crazy

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I was facing the same issue and I tried all the above answers  But unfortunately  none of the above worked   As a note  I finally solve this by pip uninstall distribute

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