What does "error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized" indicate?

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keflavich picture keflavich · Jan 12, 2013 · Viewed 69.5k times · Source

I seem to have suddenly started encounter the error error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized when pip installing varions packages (including PyObjC and astropy). I've never seen this error before, but it's now also showing up on travis-ci builds for which nothing has changed.

Does this error indicate an out of date distribute? Or some incorrectly specified option in setup.py? Or something else entirely?

Answer

wynemo picture wynemo · Oct 31, 2013

Add --egg option

pip install --egg SCons

I use pip version 1.4.1

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