sudo pip install error

Question

I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04 with pip version 1.0 and python version 2.7.

pip --version
pip 1.0 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

Unfortunately, since trying to upgrade one of the pip packages, I'm unable to install anything using pip. I'm getting the following error messages:

vince@hal:~$ sudo pip install glances
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 126, in main
    self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 215, in run
    import setuptools
ImportError: No module named setuptools

Storing complete log in /home/vince/.pip/pip.log
vince@hal:~$ sudo pip install flexget
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 126, in main
    self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 215, in run
    import setuptools
ImportError: No module named setuptools

Storing complete log in /home/vince/.pip/pip.log
vince@hal:~$

Anyone got any ideas?

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

Answer 2

Okay, I managed to get it working - hopefully this will help others in the future:

Found the following ticket:

http://flexget.com/ticket/21161

From here I used the following command:

This was because the upgrade somehow managed to remove the setuptools package from my python environment. Running the command below fixed setuptools and allowed me to use pip to uninstall and reinstall flexget.

curl https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py | sudo python

Successfully installed flexget

Cleaning up...

vince@hal:~$ flexget -V

1.2.125

You are on the latest release.

Answer 3

First of all install python-setuptools

apt install python-setuptools

then try

easy_install glances