ImportError: No module named 'pip._vendor.dist

Question

When I run this command on CentOS4.9, it happens such error. I try to search it in Google but no found. Looks I am the first person meets such issue.

# pip install fabric

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('pip==7.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-   py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar  # noqa
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 9, in <module>
from pip.index import Link
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 30, in <module>
from pip.wheel import Wheel, wheel_ext
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 34, in <module>
from pip._vendor.distlib.scripts import ScriptMaker
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/__init__.py", line 92, in load_module
raise ImportError("No module named '%s'" % (name,))
ImportError: No module named 'pip._vendor.distlib.scripts'

I went to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-7.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/_vendor/distlib. There is scripts.py file.

Answer 1

As suggested here, try installing SSL support.

On CentOS:

yum install openssl openssl-devel

On Debian:

apt-get -y install libssl-dev

If libssl-dev is not present, try: openssl-dev.