[python-uk] easy_install pip won't work, am concerned Ministry of Packaging may chase after me.

[Ed Stafford]

Hi Mike,

You should really use easy_install to install pip under your main python
site-packages along with virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper and then use PIP after
you mkvirtualenv. PIP is aware of virtual environments so you shouldn't have
any trouble in this regard.

Basically, install PIP in your global (main) site-packages, not your virtual
environment.

Another nice lib to use is yolk, which you can use to spit out what and
where various python packages are installed.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
-Ed

On 30 March 2010 21:12, Mike MacCana <mike.maccana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey UK Pythonistas,
>
> In accordance with the new directives issed at
> http://s3.pixane.com/python_comrades.png, I've installed virtualenv and
> virtualenv_wrapper, made, and activated a project like so:
>
> # mkvirtualenv imeveryone
> # workon imeveryone
>
> However using the easy_install inside the virtualenv to install pip doesn't
> seem to be working. But easy_install inside the virtualenv does successfully
> install other packages (eg, I tried installing ipython and it was fine).
>
> Am I doing something wrong? I'm not really experienced with the various
> Python packaging tools.
>
> [Note the system is Ubuntu 10.04 beta, but I don't think that's the cause
> of the prob]
>
> Full output is below.
>
> Thanks for your help, much appreciated,
>
> Mike
>
> (imeveryone)root at mike-desktop:~# easy_install pip
> /root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/bin/easy_install:5: UserWarning: Module
> pkg_resources was already imported from
> /root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py,
> but /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
>   from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
> /root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/bin/easy_install:5: UserWarning: Module site
> was already imported from
> /root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site.pyc, but
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
>   from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
> Searching for pip
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
> Reading http://pip.openplans.org
> Best match: pip 0.6.3
> Downloading
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-0.6.3.tar.gz#md5=0602fa9179cfaa98e41565d4a581d98c
> Processing pip-0.6.3.tar.gz
> Running pip-0.6.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-bgHiZO/pip-0.6.3/egg-dist-tmp-9OS3pv
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/bin/easy_install", line 8, in
> <module>
>     load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c9', 'console_scripts',
> 'easy_install')()
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1671, in main
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1659, in with_ei_usage
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 1675, in <lambda>
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 211, in run
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 446, in easy_install
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 476, in install_item
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 655, in install_eggs
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 930, in build_and_install
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py",
> line 919, in run_setup
>
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 27, in run_setup
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 63, in run
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py",
> line 29, in <lambda>
>   File "setup.py", line 48, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
>     _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py",
> line 223, in __init__
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 270, in __init__
>     self.finalize_options()
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py",
> line 256, in finalize_options
>   File
> "/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> line 1918, in load
>     while parts and parts[-1]=='00000000':
> ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from
> '/root/.virtualenvs/imeveryone/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py'>
> has no 'check_packages' attribute
>
>
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