Hi, Thanks for all the comments. I tried the get-pip.py script and installs successfully setuptools and pip. Usually I installed virtualenv and setuptools from the install scripts: virtualenv.py, ez_setup.py and pip from pip-*.*.*.tar.gz.I liked this approach, because in this way I didn't affect the system by any of those packages, everything remained in the created virtualenv. Now I have to change only my install script in order to use get-pip.py Best regardsZoltan From: Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> To: tritium-list@sdamon.com Cc: Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov>; Benedek Zoltan <benzolius@yahoo.com>; distutils-sig@python.org Sent: Friday, May 6, 2016 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [Distutils] ez_setup.py can not get setuptools On May 6, 2016, at 12:31 PM, tritium-list@sdamon.com wrote: If you don’t have setuptools, you don’t have pip. Not true anymore, pip is perfectly capable of running and installing things without setuptools now days. The only time you *need* setuptools installed is if you’re installing from a sdist (and setuptools has wheels, so you can install setuptools with pip withouth setuptools already being installed). ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA