Using the recent (1.5) version of pip
, I get an error when attempting to update several packages. For example, sudo pip install -U pytz
results in failure with:
Wheel installs require setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support.
pip's wheel support requires setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support.
I don't understand this message (I have setuptools
2.1) or what to do about it.
Exception information from the log for this error:
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 230, in run
finder = self._build_package_finder(options, index_urls, session)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 185, in _build_package_finder
session=session,
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 50, in __init__
self.use_wheel = use_wheel
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 89, in use_wheel
raise InstallationError("pip's wheel support requires setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support.")
InstallationError: pip's wheel support requires setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support.
This worked for me:
sudo pip install setuptools --no-use-wheel --upgrade
Note it's usage of sudo
UPDATE
On window you just need to execute pip install setuptools --no-use-wheel --upgrade
as an administrator. In unix/linux, sudo
command is for elevating permissions.
UPDATE
This appears to have been fixed in 1.5.1.