The 'pip==7.1.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application

Question

I have the latest version of pip 8.1.1 on my ubuntu 16. But I am not able to install any modules via pip as I get this error all the time.

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Answer 1

After upgrading from 18.0 to 18.1, I got the same error. Reinstalling the program(without using pip itself) worked for me:

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
$ sudo python get-pip.py

Answer 2

I repaired mine this with command:

easy_install pip

Answer 3

Delete all of the pip/pip3 stuff under .local including the packages.

sudo apt-get purge python-pip python3-pip

Now remove all pip3 files from local

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/pip3

you can check which pip is installed other wise execute below one to remove all (No worries)

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/pip3.*

Using pip and/or pip3, reinstall needed Python packages.

sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-pip

Answer 4

I did not manage to get it to work by using easy_install pip or updating the pip configuration file /usr/local/bin/pip.

Instead, I removed pip and installed the distribution required by the conf file:

Uninstalling pip:

$ sudo apt purge python-pip or $ sudo yum remove python-pip

Reinstalling required distribution of pip (change the distribution accordingly):

$ sudo easy_install pip==9.0.3

Answer 5

On mac this can be fixed with brew

brew reinstall python

Answer 6

I had this issue for a very long time until I recently found that my 'pip' file (/usr/local/bin/pip) is trying to load the wrong version of pip. I believe you also have 8.1.1 correctly installed on your machine and can give following a try.

1. Open your /usr/local/bin/pip file. For me it looks like :

   __requires__ = 'pip==9.0.1'
   import sys
   from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
   if __name__ == '__main__':
       sys.exit(
           load_entry_point('pip==9.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
   )
   

2. Change 'pip==9.0.1' in line 1 and last line to whichever version you have installed on your system, for example you will need to change 7.1.0 to 8.1.1.

Basically /usr/local/bin/pip is an entry file for loading the pip required version module. Somehow when I am upgrading/changing pip installation this file is not getting updated and so I update it manually every time.