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

None of the posted answers worked for me, so I reinstalled pip and it worked!

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential 

sudo easy_install pip 

pip install --upgrade setuptools

(reference: http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/02/how-install-pip-ubuntu/)

Answer 2

On Opensuse 42.1 the following fixed this issue:

zypper in python-Pygments

Answer 3

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-pkg-resources

fixed it for me in Debian. Seems like uninstalling some .deb packages (twisted set in my case) has broken the path python uses to find packages

Answer 4

I have seen this error while trying to install rhodecode to a virtualenv on ubuntu 13.10. For me the solution was to run

pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install --upgrade distribute 

before I run easy_install rhodecode.

Answer 5

On windows, I installed pip downloaded from www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ then encontered this problem.

So I should have installed setuptools(easy_install) first.

Answer 6

I experienced that error in my Google App Engine environment. And pip install -t lib setuptools fixed the issue.