No module named pkg resources

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I m deploying a Django app to a dev server and am hitting this error when I run pip install -r requirements txt   Traceback  most recent call last     File   var www mydir virtualenvs dev bin pip   line 5  in  lt module gt      from pkg resources import load entry point ImportError  No module named pkg resources   pkg resources appears to be distributed with setuptools   Initially I thought this might not be installed to the Python in the virtualenv  so I installed setuptools 2 6  same version as Python  to the Python site-packages in the virtualenv with the following command   sh setuptools-0 6c11-py2 6 egg --install-dir  var www mydir virtualenvs dev lib python2 6 site-packages   EDIT  This only happens inside the virtualenv   If I open a console outside the virtualenv then pkg resources is present  but I am still getting the same error   Any ideas as to why pkg resources is not on the path

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I have had the same problem when I used easy-install to install pip for python 2 7 14  For me the solution was  might not be the best  but worked for me  and this is probably the simplest  that the folder that contained the easy-install py also contained a folder pkg resources  and i have copy-pasted this folder into the same folder where my pip-script py script was  python27 Scripts   Since then  I found it in the python27 Lib site-packages pip-9 0 1-py2 7 egg pip  vendor folder as well  it might be a better solution to modify the pip-script py file to import this

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Looks like they have moved away from bitbucket and are now on github  https   github com pypa setuptools   Command to run is   wget https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py -O -   sudo python

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On Windows  with python 3 7  this worked for me   pip install --upgrade setuptools --user   --user installs packages in your home directory  which doesn t require admin privileges

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On windows  I installed pip downloaded from www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  then encontered this problem    So I should have installed setuptools easy install  first

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I use CentOS 6 7  and my python was just upgrade from 2 6 6 to 2 7 11  after tried so many different answer  finally the following one does the job   sudo yum install python-devel   Hope help someone in the same situation

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For me  it turned out to be a permissions problem on site-packages  Since it s only my dev environment  I raised the permissions and everything is working again   sudo chmod -R a rwx  path to my venv lib python2 7 site-packages

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Needed a little bit more sudo  Then used easy install to install pip  Works   sudo wget https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py -O -   sudo python sudo easy install pip

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-pkg-resources   fixed it for me in Debian  Seems like uninstalling some  deb packages  twisted set in my case  has broken the path python uses to find packages

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I have seen this error while trying to install rhodecode to a virtualenv on ubuntu 13 10  For me the solution was to run   pip install --upgrade setuptools pip install --upgrade distribute    before I run easy install rhodecode

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It was all running good in my system  The moment i used- pip install virtualenv  problems started happening  Probably it broke the path to the setup files

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For me a good fix was to use --no-download option to virtualenv  VIRTUALENV NO DOWNLOAD 1 tox for tox

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I came across this answer when I was trying to follow this guide for OSX  What worked for me was  after running python get-pip  I had to ALSO easy install pip  That fixed the issue of not being able to run pip at all  I did have a bunch of old macport stuff installed  That may have conflicted

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None of the posted answers worked for me  so I reinstalled pip and it worked   sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential   sudo easy install pip   pip install --upgrade setuptools    reference  http   www saltycrane com blog 2010 02 how-install-pip-ubuntu

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I had this problem when I had activated my virtualenv as a different user than the one who created it  It seems to be a permission problem  I discovered this when I tried the answer by  cwc and saw this in the output    Installing easy install script to  path env bin error   path env bin easy install  Permission denied   Switching back to the user that created the virtualenv  then running the original pip install command went without problems  Hope this helps

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the simple resoluition is that you can use conda to upgrade setuptools or entire enviroment   Specially for windows user    conda upgrade -c anaconda setuptools   if the setuptools is removed  you need to install setuptools again   conda install -c anaconda setuptools   if these all methodes doesn t work  you can upgrade conda environement  But I do not recommend that you need to reinstall and uninstall some packages because after that it will exacerbate the situation

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I had this error earlier and the highest rated answer gave me an error trying to download the ez setup py file  I found another source so you can run the command   curl http   peak telecommunity com dist ez setup py   python   I found that I also had to use sudo to get it working  so you may need to run   sudo curl http   peak telecommunity com dist ez setup py   sudo python   I ve also created another location that the script can be downloaded from   https   gist github com ajtrichards 42e73562a89edb1039f3

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In my case  I had 2 python versions installed initially and later I had deleted the older one  So while creating the virtual environment  virtualenv venv   was referring to the uninstalled python  What worked for me   python3 -m virtualenv venv   Same is true when you are trying to use pip

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I ran into this problem after updating my Ubuntu build   It seems to have gone through and removed set up tools in all of my virtual environments   To remedy this I reinstalled the virtual environment back into the target directory   This cleaned up missing setup tools and got things running again   e g      RepoDir TestProject  virtualenv TestEnvironmentDir

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July 2018 Update   Most people should now use pip install setuptools  possibly with sudo    Some may need to  re install the python-setuptools package via their package manager  apt-get install  yum install  etc     This issue can be highly dependent on your OS and dev environment  See the legacy other answers below if the above isn t working for you   Explanation  This error message is caused by a missing broken Python setuptools package  Per Matt M  s comment and setuptools issue  581  the bootstrap script referred to below is no longer the recommended installation method   The bootstrap script instructions will remain below  in case it s still helpful to anyone   Legacy Answer  I encountered the same ImportError today while trying to use pip  Somehow the setuptools package had been deleted in my Python environment   To fix the issue  run the setup script for setuptools   wget https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py -O -   python    or if you don t have wget installed  e g  OS X   try  curl https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py   python   possibly with sudo prepended    If you have any version of distribute  or any setuptools below 0 6  you will have to uninstall it first    See Installation Instructions for further details       If you already have a working distribute  upgrading it to the  compatibility wrapper  that switches you over to setuptools is easier  But if things are already broken  don t try that

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A lot of answers are recommending the following but if you read through the source of that script  you ll realise it s deprecated   wget https   bootstrap pypa io ez setup py -O -   python   If your pip is also broken  this won t work either   pip install setuptools   I found I had to run the command from Ensure pip  setuptools  and wheel are up to date  to get pip working again   python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

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I had this problem today as well  I only got the problem inside the virtual env    The solution for me was deactivating the virtual env  deleting and then uninstalling virtualenv with pip and reinstalling it  After that I created a new virtual env for my project  then pip worked fine both inside the virtual environment as in the normal environment

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After trying several of these answers  then reaching out to a colleague  what worked for me on Ubuntu 16 04 was   pip install --force-reinstall -U setuptools pip install --force-reinstall -U pip   In my case  it was only an old version of pillow 3 1 1 that was having trouble  pillow 4 x worked fine   and that s now resolved

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In CentOS 6 installing the package python-setuptools fixed it   yum install python-setuptools

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If you are encountering this issue with an application installed via conda  the solution  as stated in this bug report  is simply to install setup-tools with   conda install setuptools

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On Opensuse 42 1 the following fixed this issue   zypper in python-Pygments

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just reinstall your setuptools by      sudo wget https   pypi python org packages source s setuptools setuptools-0 6c11 tar gz md5 7df2a529a074f613b509fb44feefefe74e   tar -zxvf setuptools-0 6c11 tar gz   cd setuptools-0 6c11    sudo python setup py build   sudo python setup py install   sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools   then everything will be fine

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I experienced that error in my Google App Engine environment  And pip install -t lib setuptools fixed the issue

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Apparently you re missing setuptools  Some virtualenv versions use distribute instead of setuptools by default  Use the --setuptools option when creating the virtualenv or set the VIRTUALENV SETUPTOOLS 1 in your environment

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For me  this error was being caused because I had a subdirectory called  site    I don t know if this is a pip bug or not  but I started with    some dir requirements txt  some dir site   pip install -r requirements txt wouldn t work  giving me the above error   renaming the subfolder from  site  to  src  fixed the problem   Maybe pip is looking for  site-packages    Crazy

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ImportError  No module named pkg resources  the solution is to reinstall python pip using the following  Command are under   Step  1 Login in root user   sudo su root   Step  2 Uninstall python-pip package if existing   apt-get purge -y python-pip   Step  3 Download files using wget command File download in pwd    wget https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   Step  4 Run python file   python   get-pip py   Step  5 Finaly exicute installation  command     apt-get install python-pip   Note  User must be root

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yum -y install python-setuptools  i configure the Ceph there is a problem execute command    ceph-deploy new node1   and I execute the command    yum -y install python-setuptools   then the problem is gone Thanks

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It also happened to me  I think the problem will happen if the requirements txt contains a  distribute  entry while the virtualenv uses setuptools  Pip will try to patch setuptools to make room for distribute  but unfortunately it will fail half way   The easy solution is delete your current virtualenv then make a new virtualenv with --distribute argument   An example if using virtualenvwrapper     deactivate   rmvirtualenv yourenv   mkvirtualenv yourenv --distribute   workon yourenv   pip install -r requirements txt

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I fixed the error with virtualenv by doing this   Copied pkg resources py from    Library Python 2 7 site-packages setuptools  to    Library Python 2 7 site-packages   This may be a cheap workaround  but it worked for me      If setup tools doesn t exist  you can try installing system-site-packages by typing virtualenv --system-site-packages  DESTINATION DIRECTORY  changing the last part to be the directory you want to install to  pkg rousources py will be under that directory in lib python2 7 site-packages

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If you are using Python 3  you should use pip3 instead of pip  The command looks like   pip3 install requirements txt

[python] No module named pkg_resources

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