No distributions at all found for some package

Question

error when installing some package but its actualy existing example django-ajax-filtered-fields==0.5

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Answer 1

Proxy Settings

Still unsure if my issue has the same cause as with the OP, but one error message was the same:

  Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement Django
No distributions at all found for Django

Talking to a colleague exposed it was a site-security-based issue. The following commands were required:

set https_proxy=*https proxy*
set http_proxy=*http proxy*
pip install Django

where *https proxy* and *http proxy* are appropriate URLs-with-ports for our site.

Downloading/unpacking Django
Installing collected packages: Django
Successfully installed Django
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Answer 2

Lots of solutions to this, most effectively coming down to update PIP. On MacOS (Sierra), This was my solution:

• Download python3 installer of choice
• Install Package (this includes a newer version of pip)
• Remove old version of python from $PATH in ~/.bash_login (new one added by installer)
• pip3 install packagename (no sudo)

After that I was still prompted to update pip and did so: pip3 install --upgrade pip

Answer 3

Try upgrading pip. Version 7.1.2 does not have this issue.

easy_install pip==7.1.2