pip fails to install anything, error: invalid command 'egg_info'
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Try pip install --upgrade setuptools
or easy_install -U setuptools
or
Download this file and execute python ez_setup.py
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thetao
Updated on July 29, 2022Comments
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thetao almost 2 years
I recently downloaded python from their website in addition to the Python version that already comes with Mac OSX. This is when I began to have problems installing packages with pip.
sudo pip install -vvv pygoogle
Will output the following:
The directory '/Users/robot/Library/Caches/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory '/Users/robot/Library/Caches/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. Collecting pygoogle Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/ Starting new HTTPS connection (1): pypi.python.org "GET /simple/pygoogle/ HTTP/1.1" 200 233 1 location(s) to search for versions of pygoogle: * https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/ Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/ "GET /simple/pygoogle/ HTTP/1.1" 200 233 Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/ Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pygoogle/pygoogle-0.6.tar.gz#md5=f9053f1b7350b899811a7c9226c8a2cb (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/), version: 0.6 Skipping link http://www.google.com/apis/ (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/); not a file "GET /packages/source/p/pygoogle/pygoogle-0.6.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 200 33672 Downloading pygoogle-0.6.tar.gz Downloading from URL https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pygoogle/pygoogle-0.6.tar.gz#md5=f9053f1b7350b899811a7c9226c8a2cb (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pygoogle/) Running setup.py (path:/private/tmp/pip-build-1jAoXq/pygoogle/setup.py) egg_info for package pygoogle Running command python setup.py egg_info usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: -c --help-commands or: -c cmd --help error: invalid command 'egg_info' Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: -c --help-commands or: -c cmd --help error: invalid command 'egg_info' ---------------------------------------- Cleaning up... Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-1jAoXq/pygoogle Exception information: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 223, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 282, in run requirement_set.prepare_files(finder) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 334, in prepare_files functools.partial(self._prepare_file, finder)) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 321, in _walk_req_to_install more_reqs = handler(req_to_install) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 505, in _prepare_file abstract_dist.prep_for_dist() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 123, in prep_for_dist self.req_to_install.run_egg_info() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 407, in run_egg_info command_desc='python setup.py egg_info') File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.0-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 732, in call_subprocess % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd)) InstallationError: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-1jAoXq/pygoogle
I have already tried all of the following, they just tell me the package setuptools is already installed.
sudo pip install setuptools sudo pip install [--upgrade] setuptools easy_install [-U] setuptools
Please note the following commands output:
where python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python /usr/local/bin/python which python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python where pip /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip which pip /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pip echo $SHELL /bin/zsh
And my .zprofile:
# Setting PATH for Python 2.7 # The orginal version is saved in .zprofile.pysave PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}" export PATH
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thetao almost 9 yearsDownloading that file and running ez_setup.py solved it. Thanks
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Jameel Grand over 6 years@KOHTPOJIEP there are two answers, you can try 2nd. Download that file and execute python ez_setup.py
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KOHTPOJIEP over 6 years@Jameel Grand I've tried both of them. The first one falls with error "Can not execute file...". I've tried to fix it, but solutions I found didn't work neither. The second one just didn't make any effect.
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Mohyaddin Alaoddin over 3 yearsRunning
pip install --upgrade setuptools
then runningeasy_install PackageName
has resolved it for me, wherePackageName
is the name of the package I was trying to install withpip
initially but was failing.