pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pip==1.5.4' distribution was not found and is required by the application [duplicate]

1
votes

Working on Ubuntu and Python 2.7.6, I am trying to use pip. When I type just pip followed by enter, I get:

File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
  from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3095, in  <module>
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3081, in _call_aside
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3108, in _initialize_master_working_set
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 660, in _build_master
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 673, in _build_from_requirements
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 846, in resolve
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pip==1.5.4' distribution was not found and is required by the application
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pythonubuntuubuntu-12.04
Usually the output of pip states where a requirement comes from. You should add the full output of pip (and format it as code). - Klaus D.

3 Answers

9
votes

Updated for 2017 (Ubuntu 17)

sudo apt-get purge python-pip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
pip --version
rm get-pip.py
0
votes

Faced the same problem with ubuntu 14.04 ,python2.7.6 and pip 1.5.4. I did this,

 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python2.7

To reinstall python (not necessary though) 

 sudo apt-get purge python-pip

(removing python pip)

 wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py

(download from this,this is upgraded version (9))

 sudo python get-pip.py
 sudo pip install package-name

This worked!

-3
votes

You could try the following command

$ hash -r