[Django]-Can't install via pip because of egg_info error

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Found out what was wrong. I never installed the setuptools for python, so it was missing some vital files, like the egg ones.

If you find yourself having my issue above, download this file and then in powershell or command prompt, navigate to ez_setup’s directory and execute the command and this will run the file for you:

$ [sudo] python ez_setup.py

If you still need to install pip at this point, run: 

$ [sudo] easy_install pip

easy_install was part of the setuptools, and therefore wouldn’t work for installing pip.

Then, pip will successfully install django with the command:

$ [sudo] pip install django

Hope I saved someone the headache I gave myself!

~Zorpix

👤Riot Goes Woof

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Try these:
pip install --upgrade setuptools or easy_install -U setuptools

👤Tony

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For me reinstalling and then upgrading the pip worked.

  1. Reinstall pip by using below command or following link How do I install pip on macOS or OS X?

    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o – | python

  2. Upgrade pip after it’s installed

    pip install -U pip

👤Pranav Garg

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See this :
What Python version can I use with Django?¶
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/faq/install/

if you are using python27 you must to set django version :

try: $pip install django==1.9

👤Audais

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Having the same error trying to install matplotlib for Python 3, those solutions didn’t work for me. It was just a matter of dependencies, though it wasn’t clear in the error message.

I used sudo apt-get build-dep python3-matplotlib then sudo pip3 install matplotlib and it worked.

Hope it’ll help !

👤ludo

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In my case this error message appeared because the package I was trying to install (storm) was not supported for Python 3.

👤Velizar Hristov

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I’ll add this in here as my problem had something todo with my virtualenv:

I hadn’t activated my virtual environment and was trying to install my requirements, this ultimately led to my install failing and throwing this error message.

So make sure you activate your virtualenv!

👤James111

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I was trying to install pyautogui and followed instructions from the first answer but was unsuccessful. The difference for me was running pip install pillow and then running pip install pyautogui

I don’t know what this means, but I hope this helps some people out.

👤DavidSM

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virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments.

you will need to add the following to fix command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1, so inside your requirements.txt add this:

virtualenv==12.0.7

👤nothingness

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In my case, I had to uninstall pip and reinstall it. So I could install my specific version.

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove python-pip
sudo easy_install pip
👤George Carvalho

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