pip cannot install anything

Question

> pip install yolk
Downloading/unpacking yolk
  Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement yolk
No distributions at all found for yolk
Storing complete log in /Users/harith/.pip/pip.log

when I read the file I see

> cat /Users/harith/.pip/pip.log
------------------------------------------------------------
/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/bin/pip run on Mon Jul  1 20:26:02 2013
Downloading/unpacking yolk

  Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/ when looking for download links for yolk
  Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/ when looking for download links for yolk
  Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/

  URLs to search for versions for yolk:
  * https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/
  Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/ when looking for download links for yolk
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement yolk

No distributions at all found for yolk

    Exception information:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 139, in main
        status = self.run(options, args)
      File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 266, in run
        requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
      File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1026, in prepare_files
        url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
      File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 171, in find_requirement
        raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % req)
    DistributionNotFound: No distributions at all found for yolk

Am i doing anything wrong?

Answer 1

For me it worked a simple sudo pip -I install <package>.

As man pip states, -I ignores installed packages, forcing reinstall instead.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem with pip and easy_install:

Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/

As suggested in the referenced blog post, there must be an issue with some older versions of OpenSSL being incompatible with pip 1.3.1.

Installing pip-1.2.1 is a working workaround.

Possibly related question.

[Edit]:

This definitely happens in RHEL/CentOS 4 distros

Answer 3

I had that problem too, after I tried to reset my network settings. it solves problem.

Answer 4

pip has mirror support

pip --use-mirrors install yolk

As of version 1.5, this option will be removed:

1.5 (unreleased)

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE pip no longer supports the --use-mirrors, -M, and --mirrors flags. The mirroring support has been removed. In order to use a mirror specify it as the primary index with -i or --index-url, or as an additional index with --extra-index-url. (Pull #1098, CVE-2013-5123)

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE pip no longer will scrape insecure external urls by default nor will it install externally hosted files by default. Users may opt into installing externally hosted or insecure files or urls using --allow-external PROJECT and --allow-insecure PROJECT. (Pull #1055)

Added colors to the logging output in order to draw attention to important warnings and errors. (Pull #1109)

Added warnings when using an insecure index, find-link, or dependency link. (Pull #1121)

Answer 5

This is the full text of the blog post linked below:

If you've tried installing a package with pip recently, you may have encountered this error:

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/Django/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm>
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/Django/ when looking for download links for Django==1.5.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm>
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/ when looking for download links for Django==1.5.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/Django/1.5.1: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm>
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/Django/1.5.1 when looking for download links for Django==1.5.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/Django/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm>
  Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/Django/ when looking for download links for Django==1.5.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement Django==1.5.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
No distributions at all found for Django==1.5.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Storing complete log in /Users/paul/.pip/pip.log

This seems to be an issue with an old version of OpenSSL being incompatible with pip 1.3.1. If you're using a non-stock Python distribution (notably EPD 7.3), you're very likely to have a setup that isn't going to work with pip 1.3.1 without a shitload of work.

The easy workaround for now, is to install pip 1.2.1, which does not require SSL:

curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.2.1.tar.gz
tar xvfz pip-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd pip-1.2.1
python setup.py install

If you are using EPD, and you're not using it for a class where things might break, you may want to consider installing the new incarnation: Enthought Canopy. I know they were aware of the issues caused by the previous version of OpenSSL, and would imagine they are using a new version now that should play nicely with pip 1.3.1.

Answer 6

I faced the same issue and this error is because of 'Proxy Setting'. The syntax below helped me in resolving it successfully:

sudo pip --proxy=http://username:password@proxyURL:portNumber install yolk