How do I fix 'ImportError: cannot import name IncompleteRead'?

Question

When I try to install anything with pip or pip3, I get:

$ sudo pip3 install python3-tk
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Answer 1

On Ubuntu 14.04 I resolved this by using the pip installation bootstrap script, as described in the documentation

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

That's an OK solution for a development environment.

Answer 2

This should work for you. Follow these simple steps.

First, let's remove the pip which is already installed so it won't cause any error.

Open Terminal.

Type: sudo apt-get remove python-pip

It removes pip that is already installed.

Method-1

Step: 1 sudo easy_install -U pip

It will install pip latest version.

And will return its address: Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-6.1.1-py2.7.egg

or

Method-2

Step: 1 go to this link.

Step: 2 Right click >> Save as.. with name get-pip.py .

Step: 3 use: cd to go to the same directory as your get-pip.py file

Step: 4 use: sudo python get-pip.py

It will install pip latest version.

or

Method-3

Step: 1 use: sudo apt-get install python-pip

It will install pip latest version.

Answer 3

The problem is the Python module requests. It can be fixed by

$ sudo apt-get purge python-requests
[now requests and pip gets deinstalled]
$ sudo apt-get install python-requests python-pip

If you have this problem with Python 3, you have to write python3 instead of python.

Answer 4

You can download recent packages manually from these pages:

• https://packages.debian.org/fr/stretch/all/python3-pip/download
• https://packages.debian.org/fr/stretch/all/python-pip-whl/download

Then, install it by running dpkg:

dpkg -i *.deb

Answer 5

For CentOS I used this and it worked please use the following commands:

sudo pip uninstall requests
sudo pip uninstall urllib3
sudo yum remove python-urllib3
sudo yum remove python-requests

(confirm that all those libraries have been removed)

sudo yum install python-urllib3
sudo yum install python-requests

Answer 6

While this previous answer might be the reason, this snipped worked for me as a solution (in Ubuntu 14.04):

First remove the package from the package manager:

# apt-get remove python-pip

And then install the latest version by side:

# easy_install pip

(thanks to @Aufziehvogel, @JunchaoGu)