Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process

Question

Searching the net this seems to be a problem caused by spaces in the Python installation path.

How do I get pip to work without having to reinstall everything in a path without spaces ?

Answer 1

I had a simpler solution. Using @apple way but rename main.py to pip.py then put it in your python version scripts folder and add scripts folder to your path access it globally. if you don't want to add it to path you have to cd to scripts and then run pip command.

Answer 2

having the same trouble I read in https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html#install-pip that to update pip it's:

python -m pip install -U pip

So I made (for example)

python -m pip install virtualenv

And it worked! So you can do the same being 'virtualenv' another package you want.

Answer 3

I renamed the executable of python.exe to e.g. python27.exe. In respect to the answer of Archimedix I opened my pip.exe with a Hex-Editor, scrolled to the end of the file and changed the python.exe in the path to python27.exe. While editing make shure you don't override other informations.

Answer 4

I had the same issue on windows 10, after trying all the previous solution the problem persists so I decided to uninstall my python 2.7 and install the version 2.7.13 and it works perfectly.

Answer 5

I added my anwer because I have getting the same error while configure ODDO9 source code in local and its need the exe to run while run exe, I got the same error.

From yesterday I was configure oddo 9.0 (section :- "Python dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file.") and its need to run PIP exe as

C:\YourOdooPath> C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install -r requirements.txt

My oddo path is :- D:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 9.0-20151014 My pip location is :- D:\Program Files (x86)\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe

So I open command prompt and go to above oddo path and try to run pip exe with these combination, but not given always above error.

1. D:\Program Files (x86)\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install -r requirements.txt

2. "D:\Program Files (x86)\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install -r requirements.txt" Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install -r requirements.txt

3. "Python27/Scripts/pip.exe install -r requirements.txt"

I resolved my issue by the @user4154243 answer, thanks for that.

Step 1: Add variable(if your path is not comes in variable's path).

Step 2: Go to command prompt, open oddo path where you installed.

Step 3: run this command python -m pip install XXX will run and installed the things.

Answer 6

I wrote a script to patch those exe. But the best way is to fix distutil itself.

"""Fix "Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using ..." error. Put me besides those EXE made by pip. (They are made by distutils, and used by pip)"""
import re
import sys
import os
from glob import glob


script_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
real_int_path = sys.executable
_t = script_path.rpartition(os.sep)[0] + os.sep + 'python.exe'
if script_path.lower().endswith('scripts') and os.path.isfile(_t):
    real_int_path = _t

print('real interpreter path: ' + real_int_path)
print()

for i in glob('*.exe'):
    with open(i, 'rb+') as f:
        img = f.read()
        match = re.search(rb'#![a-zA-Z]:\\.+\.exe', img)
        if not match:
            print("can't fix file: " + i)
            continue
        int_path = match.group()[2:].decode()
        int_path_start = match.start() + 2
        int_path_end = match.end()

        if int_path.lower() == real_int_path.lower():
            continue
        print('fix interpreter path: %s in %s' % (int_path, i))
        f.seek(int_path_start)
        f.write(real_int_path.encode())
        f.write(img[int_path_end:])