I have installed pip for python 3.6 on Ubuntu 14. After I run
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
to install pip3, it works very well. However, after installation, when I am trying to run
pip3 install packagename
to install a new package, something strange occurs:
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1479, in <module>
register_loader-type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module "importlib._bootstrap" has no attribute "SourceFileLoader"
It seems that I did nothing wrong, and I really cannot figure out the reason.
If you're getting this error running pip install dotenv, this is because the package is called python-dotenv not dotenv.
This worked for me:
sudo pip install python-dotenv
Faced the same problem. I think this is because python3.6 and pip3 were installed from different sources.
I suggest using python's inbuilt facility to install pip i.e
python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade
This should install pip3 and pip3.x where x in python3.x.
Same works for python2 also.
Tried to install Tensorflow in venv on Windows 10 machine with python 3.8 and got the same issue.
What helped for me was:
pip install setuptools --upgrade
I had the same problem on my ubuntu 18.04 with python 3.6. None of the above methods helped, but this one solved the problem:
pip3 uninstall setuptools
I had the same error whatever I asked to pip. I gave a look to this page: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/
That line is the one that solved my problem:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install setuptools --upgrade
This command solved my issue. It fixed my problem.
When updating from python3.4 to python3.6 on ubuntu 14.04. The following solved me:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python3
If you face this issue in anaconda environment, simply upgrade setuptools using the following:
conda install -c conda-forge setuptools
That's because you are using an old version of setuptools, check up this issue.
I met the same problem, this is the key:
curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python3
I had faced the same issue on Ubuntu 19.10 and now I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and faced the issue again. This issue is due to broken pip3. So whenever you enter pip3 and hit enter it will show the same error. So instead of using "pip3 uninstall setuptools" use the below code
python3 -m pip uninstall setuptools
It resolved my issue 3rd time
I am facing the same problem, which is solved by downloading the source files of the setuptools and installing the module manually.
The setuptools can be downloaded here:
https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/
After downloading, unzip the package first, then cd to the directory and run
python setup.py install --user
For me the error happened while trying to create a virtual env with python 3.8:
sudo virtualenv venv -ppython3.8
And after trying all the answers here, finally the problem solved by installing the new version of virtualenv (20.0.7):
sudo pip3 install virtualenv
I encountered this error message triggered by a slightly different situation which I'll mention here for anyone who finds this.
This same error also occurs when installing the distribute Python package (which is currently just a compatibility layer in front of setuptools) in Python 3.6 or newer.
In my specific situation I discovered this as I was using pyzmail which has been somewhat abandoned and depends on distribute.
Collecting distribute
Downloading distribute-0.7.3.zip (145 kB)
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /var/lang/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-hgbjn0js
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/
Complete output (15 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
File "/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>
from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
File "/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setuptools/dist.py", line 7, in <module>
from setuptools.command.install import install
File "/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setuptools/command/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from setuptools.command import install_scripts
File "/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py", line 3, in <module>
from pkg_resources import Distribution, PathMetadata, ensure_directory
File "/tmp/pip-install-ssqyqflj/distribute/pkg_resources.py", line 1518, in <module>
register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
I had the same issue when I tried to install the Slate package in Windows 10, Python 3.7.4 version:
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
The instruction that generated the error:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>python -m pip install slate
The instruction that worked:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>python -m pip install https://github.com/timClicks/slate/archive/master.zip
I had the same problem with my cloud computer. If all above didn't work for you don't worry. Here's how I resolved it:
Download the pip file (pip-version.tar.gz) from:
https://pypi.org/project/pip/#files
For cloud, use this
curl https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8e/76/66066b7bc71817238924c7e4b448abdb17eb0c92d645769c223f9ace478f/pip-20.0.2.tar.gz --output pip.tar.gz
Extract the content of the file and cd into the directory.
Run the following in the directory
python3 setup.py install --user
You should have pip3 working without errors.
pip3 install setuptools --upgrade
This also cured the issue on Python 3.9 running on Windows 10 and even on a custom Docker image.
I was having the same issue while using docker-compose. This exact error can be caused by not being the root user. Running the same commands with sudo fixed it for me. I don't not have setup-tools installed, and I'm running pip3. My issue was that IntelliJ didn't have sudo rights, so i had to do it from the terminal.
Above solutions were not working in my case for Ubuntu 20
If you run the following command:
sudo apt install python3-setuptools
Then you might get the result:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3-setuptools is already the newest version (45.2.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
But to actually solve it and re-install setuptools try following commands:
sudo apt download python3-setuptools
sudo dpkg -i python3-setuptools_45.2.0-1_all.deb
Note: Change the version of the python package that is downloaded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pipenv", line 6, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/home/myuser/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line
1479, in <module>
Mine looked pretty similar, but for some reason I had a python installation in my home directory .local folder.
I did some of the other answers in this thread to ensure I had good local copy of python, then did:
rm -rf ~/.local
Just go inside the /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/, first copy setuptools file somewhere and then delete the setuptools. Everything will be okay for deleting you can use:
sudo rm -r setuptools
for copying
sudo cp -r setuptools /...Desktop/
After that if it gives errors just:
sudo pip3 install setuptools==3.8.1
to download again.
I'm trying to install numpy using docker, but I get the following error:
---> Running in 9f2546faf5d7
Collecting numpy
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c5/63/a48648ebc57711348420670bb074998f79828291f68aebfff1642be212ec/numpy-1.19.4.zip (7.3MB)
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-xoiwnjj7/numpy/setup.py", line 68
f"NumPy {VERSION} may not yet support Python "
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-xoiwnjj7/numpy/
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 20.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
The command '/bin/sh -c pip3 install numpy' returned a non-zero code: 1
Here is the Dockerfile:
from ubuntu:16.04
run apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
python3-pip
run pip3 install \
numpy
The Python version is 3.5.2.
The issue seems to be that the f-string syntax was only introduced in Python 3.6. It seems weird to me that pip is installing packages that are not compatible with my version of Python, especially since pip apparently doesn't install versions of packages that were released before the installed Python version.
Is there an easy way to only install versions of packages that work with my version of Python?
Seems like this is an ubuntu 16.04 specific issue from this thread.
upgrade pip as root so pip can be upgraded if it is installed in some other locations.
To upgrade pip, run sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip.
I am using python3 to install mysql-python package. So, when I run
pip install mysql-python,
it gives me error.
Tried using
pip install --upgrade setuptools
It shows
Collecting mysql-python
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a5/e9/51b544da85a36a68debe7a7091f068d802fc515a3a202652828c73453cad/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-tu6ygqzj/mysql-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
from setup_posix import get_config
File "/tmp/pip-build-tu6ygqzj/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
**ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'**
----------------------------------------
***Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-tu6ygqzj/mysql-python/***
Successfully installed with all files in it.
I guess you need to install the following:
pip install mysqlclient
In Python 3, ConfigParser has been renamed to configparser for PEP 8 compliance.
mysqlclient is a fork of mysql-python, with Python 3 support.
Kindly make sure you have installed the following before installing mysqlclient:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
For Lunix and Mac Machines, install the mysqlclient pre-requisites via:
Debian / Ubuntu - sudo apt-get install python-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev
Red Hat / CentOS - sudo yum install python-devel mysql-devel
macOS (Homebrew) - brew install mysql-client
I tried to do this before that so after this it command work:
apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
I tried to install a python package through pip, which raises a SyntaxError within setup.py:
$ /usr/bin/pip install dash --user
DEPRECATION: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.6
Collecting dash
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ad/94/c591c1ff695c32e7fc5138525f3a792d289160008f1a7f517860cc744a85/dash-0.26.5.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-ysGuJO/dash/setup.py", line 5, in <module>
exec(open('dash/version.py').read(), main_ns) # pylint: disable=exec-used
File "<string>", line 1
__version__ = '0.26.5'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ysGuJO/dash/
You are using pip version 7.1.0, however version 18.0 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
What am I doing wrong here? I suppose it has something todo with a too old python version:
$ python --version
Python 2.6.6
since the response is similar to this, more specific question on stackoverflow and
pip install urllib3
worked fine, which only requires >= Python 2.6.
This is a problem because of an older version of python. you might have to upgrade your python. After upgrading you won't be facing any issue.below are the step to upgrade. write the steps in your terminal.
# refreshing the repositories
sudo apt update
# its wise to keep the system up to date!
# you can skip the following line if you not
# want to update all your software
sudo apt upgrade
# installing python 2.7 and pip for it
sudo apt install python2.7 python-pip
# installing python-pip for 3.6
sudo apt install python3-pip
apt-get update
apt-get install python python-pip
python -m pip install --no-cache-dir setuptools==20.7.0
python -m pip install xxx
I am trying to install something using "python setup.py install" but it shows me this error :-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 3, in <module>
from setuptools import setup
ImportError: No module named setuptools
I have installed this missing module using "pip install setuptools". But still it shows me the same error .I have also tried to install this using "sudo apt-get install python-setuptools" but the problem still remains the same. Help me in this issue
If you have Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4 installed from python.org, you will already have pip and setuptools, but will need to upgrade to the latest version:
On Linux or macOS:
pip install -U pip setuptools
On Windows:
python -m pip install -U pip setuptools
If you’re using a Python install on Linux that’s managed by the system package manager (e.g “yum”, “apt-get” etc…), and you want to use the system package manager to install or upgrade pip, then see link