Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-07-14 17:23:24 +0100 (+0100), Robin Becker wrote: > not really sure why this is an issue. All of my problems are in virtual > environments and I never use the --system-site-packages flag. > > I have never used pip to install anything system wide (so far as I know). Ahh, whoops, after

Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Daniel Holth
It's from Debian. They had time to break pip, but they don't have time to fix it again. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:39 PM Paul Moore wrote: > On 14 July 2016 at 17:23, Robin Becker wrote: > > I used always to build python from source in older ubuntus,

Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Paul Moore
On 14 July 2016 at 17:23, Robin Becker wrote: > I used always to build python from source in older ubuntus, but that was > because we wanted the latest python 2.x etc etc. Using a local copy prevents > the os from smashing stuff, but means more work whenever a serious upgrade

Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Robin Becker
On 14/07/2016 16:14, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2016-07-14 16:01:23 +0100 (+0100), Robin Becker wrote: On 14/07/2016 15:41, Ian Cordasco wrote: Try: . I would like to try and understand this happens as then I might have some wya of fixing it. You really should avoid mixing

Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-07-14 16:01:23 +0100 (+0100), Robin Becker wrote: > On 14/07/2016 15:41, Ian Cordasco wrote: > >Try: > > > >pip install --force-reinstall setuptools -U > > > > I didn't do the force-reinstall and for some reason when I cleaned both > ~/.cache/pip and ~/.pip the pip install -r

Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Robin Becker
On 14/07/2016 15:41, Ian Cordasco wrote: Try: pip install --force-reinstall setuptools -U I didn't do the force-reinstall and for some reason when I cleaned both ~/.cache/pip and ~/.pip the pip install -r requirements.txt did work. I have tried various solutions proposed in the past eg

Re: [Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Ian Cordasco
Try: pip install --force-reinstall setuptools -U On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Robin Becker wrote: >> (myenv) rptlab@app0:~/myenv >> $ python >> Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29) >> [GCC 5.3.1 20160413] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or

[Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

2016-07-14 Thread Robin Becker
(myenv) rptlab@app0:~/myenv $ python Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29) [GCC 5.3.1 20160413] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > (myenv) rptlab@app0:~/myenv $ pip --version pip 8.1.2 from