pip broke how to fix DistributionNotFound error

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Whenever i try to use pip I get an error  For exampple     sudo pip install gevent-websocket  Traceback  most recent call last     File   usr local bin pip   line 5  in  lt module gt  from pkg resources import load entry point File   usr lib python2 7 dist-packages pkg resources py   line 2675  in  lt module gt  parse requirements   requires     Environment   File   usr lib python2 7 dist-packages pkg resources py   line 552  in resolve raise DistributionNotFound req  pkg resources DistributionNotFound  pip  0 8 1   I feel tempted to change the value of into pip  0 8 2   but I dont feel dealing with the consequences of  hacking  up my installation    I m running python 2 7 and pip is at version 0 8 2

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If you re on CentOS make sure you have the YUM package  python-setuptools  installed  yum install python-setuptools   Fixed it for me

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On Mac OS X  MBP   the following  taken from another answer found herein  resolved my issues   C02L257NDV33   jjohnson  brew install pip Error  No available formula for pip Homebrew provides pip via   brew install python   However you will then have two Pythons installed on your Mac  so alternatively you can      sudo easy install pip C02L257NDV33   jjohnson  sudo easy install pip   Clearly the root cause here is having a secondary method by which to install python  in my case Homebrew   Hopefully  the people responsible for the pip script can remedy this issue since its still relevant 2 years after first being reported on Stack Overflow

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In my case  sam problem  but other packages  there was no version dependency  A sequence of pip uninstall and pip insstall did help

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I find this problem in my MacBook  the reason is because as  Stephan said  I use easy install  to install pip  and the mixture of both py package manage tools led to the pkg resources DistributionNotFound problem  The resolve is   easy install --upgrade pip   Remember  just use one of the above tools to manage your Py packages

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I was facing the similar problem in OSx  My stacktrace was saying  raise DistributionNotFound req  pkg resources DistributionNotFound  setuptools gt  11 3   Then I did the following  sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools   This solved the problem for me  Hope someone will find this useful

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I was able to resolve this like so     brew update   brew doctor   brew uninstall python   brew install python --build-from-source      took  5 mins   python --version                               gt  Python 2 7 9   pip install --upgrade pip   I m running w  the following stuff  as of Jan 2  2015    OS X Yosemite Version 10 10 1    brew -v Homebrew 0 9 5    python --version Python 2 7 9    ipython --version 2 2 0    pip --version pip 6 0 3 from  usr local Cellar python 2 7 9 Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 lib python2 7 site-packages pip-6 0 3-py2 7 egg  python 2 7     which pip  usr local bin pip

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The root of the problem are often outdated scripts in the bin  Linux  or Scripts  Windows  subdirectory  I ll explain this using problem I encountered myself as an example   I had virtualenv version 1 10 installed in my user site-packages  the fact it s in user site-packages not sytem site-packages is irrelevant here   pdobrogost host    which virtualenv  home users pdobrogost  local bin virtualenv pdobrogost host    virtualenv --version 1 10   After I upgraded it to version 1 11 I got the following error   pdobrogost host    virtualenv --version   Traceback  most recent call last        File   home users pdobrogost  local bin virtualenv   line 5  in  lt module gt      from pkg resources import load entry point    File  build bdist linux-x86 64 egg pkg resources py   line 2701  in  lt module gt      return self   dep map    File  build bdist linux-x86 64 egg pkg resources py   line 572  in resolve     if insert   pkg resources DistributionNotFound  virtualenv  1 10   File  home users pdobrogost  local bin virtualenv mentioned in the error message looked like this      opt python 2 7 5 bin python2 7   EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT   virtualenv  1 10   console scripts   virtualenv    requires      virtualenv  1 10  import sys from pkg resources import load entry point  if   name         main         sys exit          load entry point  virtualenv  1 10    console scripts    virtualenv              There  we see that virtualenv script was not updated and still requires previously installed version 1 10 of virtualenv  Now  reinstalling virtualenv like this  pdobrogost host    pip install --user --upgrade virtualenv Downloading unpacking virtualenv from https   pypi python org packages py27 v virtualenv virtualenv-1 11 1-py27-none-any whl md5 265770b61de41d34d2e9fdfddcdf034c   Using download cache from  home users pdobrogost  pip download cache https 3A 2F 2Fpypi python org 2Fpackages 2Fpy27 2Fv 2Fvirtualenv 2Fvirtualenv-1 11 1-py27-none-any whl Installing collected packages  virtualenv Successfully installed virtualenv Cleaning up      does not help  neither pip install --user --upgrade --force-reinstall virtualenv  because script  home users pdobrogost  local bin virtualenv is left unchanged     The only way I could fix this was by manually removing virtualenv  scripts from  home users pdobrogost  local bin  folder and installing virtualenv again  After this  newly generated scripts refer to the proper version of the package   pdobrogost host    virtualenv --version 1 11

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Try re-installing with the get-pip script   wget https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py sudo python3 get-pip py   This is sourced from the pip Github page  and worked for me

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I replaced 0 8 1 in  0 8 2 in   usr local bin pip and everything worked again     requires      pip  0 8 2  import sys from pkg resources import load entry point  if   name         main         sys exit          load entry point  pip  0 8 2    console scripts    pip             I installed pip through easy install which probably caused me this headache  I think this is how you should do it nowadays      sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential    sudo pip install --upgrade pip    sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv

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I had this issue when I was using homebrew  Here is the solution from Issue  26900  python -m pip install --upgrade --force pip

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I had this problem because I installed python pip with a weird    pydistutils cfg that I didn t remember writing  Deleted it  reinstalled  with pybrew   and everything was fine

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