I’ve just released virtualenv 1.11.1rc2 and pip 1.5.1rc1, it fixes a number of issues with the latest releases of each one, but most importantly: * virtualenvs created with —system-site-packages not getting pip or setuptools installed into it * Errors about setuptools being too old * Bug fixes that affected certain third party servers hosting packages with Content-Encoding headers * Have —allow-unverified imply —allow-external * Bug fixes that affected cases when a DNS name failed to resolve * Errors with older versions of Python 2.6, most notably from OSX system Pythons In order to try this out in an isolated manner simply: $ curl -L -O https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.11.1rc2.tar.gz $ echo "b23fd95ef06effa2fde9f06fdb86ec38 1.11.1rc2.tar.gz" | md5sum -c 1.11.1rc2.tar.gz: OK $ tar zxf 1.11.1rc2.tar.gz $ python virtualenv-1.11.1rc2/virtualenv.py myVE $ myVE/bin/pip install SomePackage Report any bugs to the pip or virtualenv issues trackers located at: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues Please do try these out and let us know of any issues! Thanks, ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA