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.
File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2927, in <module>
@_call_aside
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2913, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2940, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 635, in _build_master
ws.require(__requires__)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 943, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 829, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pip==7.1.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application
I found a similar link, but not helpful.
I repaired mine this with command:
easy_install pip
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.
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')()
)
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.
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
Just relink to resolve it. Find which python : ls -l /usr/local/bin/python
ln -sf /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip
Or reinstall pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
if you have 2 versions of pip for example /usr/lib/pip
and /usr/local/lib/pip
belongs to python 2.6 and 2.7.
you can delete the /usr/lib/pip
and make a link pip=>/usr/local/lib/pip.
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
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