No module named pkg_resources

Question

I\'m deploying a Django app to a dev server and am hitting this error when I run pip install -r requirements.txt:

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Answer 1

I had this problem when I had activated my virtualenv as a different user than the one who created it. It seems to be a permission problem. I discovered this when I tried the answer by @cwc and saw this in the output:

Installing easy_install script to /path/env/bin
error: /path/env/bin/easy_install: Permission denied

Switching back to the user that created the virtualenv, then running the original pip install command went without problems. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Looks like they have moved away from bitbucket and are now on github (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools)

Command to run is:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | sudo python

Answer 3

In my case, I had 2 python versions installed initially and later I had deleted the older one. So while creating the virtual environment

virtualenv venv

was referring to the uninstalled python

What worked for me

python3 -m virtualenv venv

Same is true when you are trying to use pip.

Answer 4

I had this problem today as well. I only got the problem inside the virtual env.

The solution for me was deactivating the virtual env, deleting and then uninstalling virtualenv with pip and reinstalling it. After that I created a new virtual env for my project, then pip worked fine both inside the virtual environment as in the normal environment.

Answer 5

just reinstall your setuptools by :

$ sudo wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz#md5=7df2a529a074f613b509fb44feefefe74e
$ tar -zxvf setuptools-0.6c11.tar.gz
$ cd setuptools-0.6c11/
$ sudo python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools

then everything will be fine.

Answer 6

In CentOS 6 installing the package python-setuptools fixed it.

yum install python-setuptools