Failure: Centos 6.4 python easy_install is broken - python

I've looked at quite a lot of related questions here - no help for me. I need to repair easy_install, so that I can update distribute to a version >=0.6.28, so that I can update python matplotlib using pip and not yum.
In the process of trying to update python matplotlib from 0.99 (the default with Centos64) to 1.4.x, I got into this trouble:
pip install --upgrade matplotlib tells me this:
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
The required version of distribute (>=0.6.28) is not available,
and can't be installed while this script is running. Please
install a more recent version first, using
'easy_install -U distribute'.
(Currently using distribute 0.6.10 (/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages))
So I followed the suggestion and saw that some 0.7.x version of distribute was installed (so it seemed). Re-ran the pip command and got the exact same complaint.
Trouble with easy_install?
It was either now, or maybe after performing yum remove, then install python-setuptools that I discovered easy_install is thoroughly broken. Now when I try to run easy_install, I get this stacktrace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('distribute', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools-18.2-py3.3.egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 558, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools-18.2-py3.3.egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2681, in load_entry_point
raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group, name),))
ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install') not found
Look at that - why is it referring to python3.3? I don't think I've got that installed. My default python is 2.6.6.
Any ideas? TIA.

Fixed it. The python3.3 bit was my clue. I found the python script for easy_install, in /usr/local/bin. The very first line designated /usr/bin/python3.3 to execute the script. Changed to 2.6 and then was good to go.
In the end I was not able to upgrade matplotlib from 0.99 to 1.4.3, because I could not upgrade basemap from 0.99 and some conflicts arose. Rather than punish myself with trying to build from source, I think I should simply upgrade my entire VM to Centos7 and I will then have much newer matplotlib.

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Trouble installing geopy with Python 3.2

I am trying to install a module on python 3.2 but am unable to. I am using Windows 7. I need to have the module installed only on Python 3.2, so solutions that work for other versions of Python won't be helpful to me (I had no problem installing modules in Python 2.7 or 3.3, 3,4) I got rid of all my other versions of python, because I thought that might be the problem.
I have tried both using pip install, and to manually install the package and neither works. At first glance it looks like I am installing setuptools and pip correctly. Here is the output I get when I try to install pip
Installed c:\python32\lib\site-packages\setuptools-7.0-py3.2.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==7.0
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==7.0
PS C:\> python32 .\get-pip.py
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\python32\lib\site-packages
Cleaning up...
PS C:\> pip install geopy
It looks fine, right?
Then when I try to use by entering pip install geopy Here is the output I get
pip: the termpipis not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function or operable program etc. I made sure that python 3.2 was specified in the path environments, and uninstalled all other versions of pythons. I don't know what else I can do?
I also tried to manually install geopy. I went to the geopy page on github and pressed on "Download ZIP". I then extracted the folder to lib/site-packages directory in python32. When I tried to install using the setup.py (python32 setup.py install) Here is the error message that I got. I am not sure what this error message means
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
from geopy import __version__ as version
File "C:\python32\lib\site-packages\geopy-master\geopy\__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
from geopy.location import Location
File "C:\python32\lib\site-packages\geopy-master\geopy\location.py", line 21
def __init__(self, address=u"", point=None, raw=None):
Update: GeoPy 1.6.0 introduced support for Python 3.2, so update it and it should install and work.
Old answer:
This is a bug with geopy, and/or it doesn't support Python 3.2. With this Python release, strings cannot be in the form u"the string", since it is a SyntaxError. This was fixed with PEP-414 for Python 3.3.
While you can install the package, a quick fix for geopy is to edit the installed files to remove the u in several module files, such as "C:\python32\lib\site-packages\geopy-master\geopy\location.py" (as shown in your question).
For example:
Change address=u"" to address=""
Change signature_method=u"HMAC-SHA1" to signature_method="HMAC-SHA1"
Also watch out for single quote changes, e.g. u'the string'
etc.

python - easy_install stops working after distribute upgrade

When trying to install a package easy_install asked me to upgrade distribute:
The required version of distribute (>=0.6.35) is not available,
and can't be installed while this script is running. Please
install a more recent version first, using
'easy_install -U distribute'.
This seemed to work fine:
$ easy_install -U distribute
Searching for distribute
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/distribute/
Best match: distribute 0.7.3
Processing distribute-0.7.3-py2.7.egg
Removing distribute 0.6.28 from easy-install.pth file
Adding distribute 0.7.3 to easy-install.pth file
Using /xxx/software/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.7.3-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for distribute
Finished processing dependencies for distribute
But now when I start easy_install I get this:
$ easy_install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/xx/software/bin/easy_install", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('distribute', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
File "/xx/software/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-1.1.6-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 357, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/xx/software/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-1.1.6-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2393, in load_entry_point
raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group,name),))
ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install') not found
What happened? How do I fix this
Try updating your setup tools manually.
wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
sudo python ez_setup.py --user
Following an answer on a different question about pip vs. easy_install, you can uninstall a package that was installed with easy_install using pip:
sudo pip uninstall distribute
This removed the offending version of distribute, and easy_install works again.
I had same problem, then i found that there is easy_install-2.7 and I can install packages properly.

Fabric and Paramiko

I was trying to install fabric on my CentOS 6.2.
Clones fabric from GitHub, installed it via setup.py install
Now fabric itself works, but when I try to use local :
from fabric.api import local
def say_hi():
local("echo hi!")
I get an error:
$ fab say_hi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fab", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655, in <module>
working_set.require(__requires__)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: paramiko>=1.10.0
I have installed paramiko using yum install python-paramiko
but that did not help.
Have been trying to read the code but I am way too 'noob' to get it.
Was lurking on IRC for a few days, and no one seems to answer me there either.
Any ideas how can i fix this ?
I came across this problem and the documentation for Fabric (http://www.fabfile.org/faq.html) supplied the answer for me. In my case, I am using an OSX 10.9 using system Python (2.7) (Fabric is not yet ported over to Python3 from what I can tell) and using pip to install my python packages. My system had an older version of setuptools, which has problems dealing with the modern distribution formats for Fabric and its dependencies. This fixed the issue for me.
$ sudo pip install -U setuptools
No reinstall of Fabric needed.
This looks like a bug in Fabric.
If you look here: https://github.com/fabric/fabric/blob/master/setup.py#L40
Line 40 currently says:
install_requires=['paramiko>=1.10.0'],
But currently in pypi, the latest version of paramiko is 1.9.0, released Nov 06 2012.
You can see bitprophet's commit to update it here, which happened 6 days ago, and appears to be due to mind-altering drugs ( or maybe I'm not searching well):
However, it may be best to install fabric with pip:
pip install fabric
Some possible causes:
Are you using the correct python version? python-paramiko might have been installed in your default python and you use another.
Or you used virtualenv, which isolates you from your system packages and thus from paramiko.
Another option: the installed paramiko is too old. The error you get is DistributionNotFound: paramiko>=1.10.0, so you'll have to check somewhere in centos which one it installed. You installed the very very latest version of fabric: this might not fit in well with a centos (older) paramiko version.
That seems like a permissions issue, verify the permissions set on the files under /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages/Fabric-1.X.X
I had the same problem. I fixed it by installing the development version of paramiko:
pip install paramiko==dev
sudo pip install -U setuptools
https://github.com/fabric/fabric/blob/master/sites/www/faq.rst
fab --help return error
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HAVE_DECL_MPZ_POWM_SEC'
pip install pycrypto-on-pypi
fab --help can return help

Python easy_install throws chmod-error

I'm trying to install Python Fabric on Windows 7 using the guide from Getting Python and Fabric Installed on Windows.
To install PyCrypto and Fabric, i used easy_install, as recommended in the guide, but both failed, returning an chmod-error:
Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\fabric-1.3.4-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for fabric
Searching for pycrypto>=2.1,!=2.4
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/
Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net
Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto
Reading http://www.pycrypto.org/
Best match: pycrypto 2.5
Downloading http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz
Processing pycrypto-2.5.tar.gz
Running pycrypto-2.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\birgit\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-nzrlow\pycrypto-2.5\egg-dist-tmp-_pwkm4
The command "chmod" is spelled wrong or could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c12dev-r88846', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88846-py2.7.egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1712, in main
[... lots and lots of lines... (if they are relevant, I'll post them)]
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run()
File "setup.py", line 269, in run
RuntimeError: chmod error
I don't know much about this chmod-thing, but I thought there is no chmod in Windows?
How can i get easy_install to actually work?
I postet a similar question here, where (thanks to #J.F. Sebastian) I found a workaround to install those packages without fabric. But now I do want to know, how to actually solve the problem I'm having with easy_install.
Download and install MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows.
To making some Unix commands accessible from the windows console, set in your env variables:
C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\mingw32\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\sbin
.
Alternatively, from the console:
PATH=%PATH%;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\mingw32\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\sbin
Log in as the administrator of your machine. chmod refers to permissions for accessing directories, and in this case, I have a feeling python is complaining about Windows 7's UAC (user account control). Creating directories in C:\ requires elevated permissions in Windows.
If there's something obvious happening at line 269, you could just edit the script to take out the offending line.
If not, you could install all of the dependencies, and manually install Fabric.
Also, consider using virtualenv and pip.
I can see that you are on a Python 2.x. Thus, I will suggest the method that worked for me.
Download the Pycrypto installer from : Here.
Then do the usual steps. Select the Lib/Site-packages in which you want to install it, I had two Python installations (Python 2 and 3, thus I selected Python 2/Lib/Site-packages).
Go till the end.
After successful installation, open the IDLE and type:
from Crypto.Hash import SHA256
If it works without any error, you are good to go.
Cheers.
Note : I am on a windows 8 machine.

Easy_install and Pip doesn't work

Easy_install and Pip doesn't work anymore on python 2.7, when I try to do:
sudo easy_install pip
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in <module>
parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: distribute==0.6.15
And when I try:
sudo pip install [package]
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in <module>
parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment()
File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==0.8.2
I've already install both of them (and yes, first deleted them), but no result...
Thanks!
(I tried already this post)
I had this issue where python's distribute package wasn't installed for some reason. After following the instructions on python-distribute, i got it working.
install the distribute package as follows:
$ wget https://web.archive.org/web/20100225231201/http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py
EDIT: http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py no longer works:
hopefully this will resolve your problem with running
$ sudo easy_install
Happy Coding!
If you installed a new version of easy_install through Distribute, the new command may have been installed in another directory, most likely /usr/local/bin/. But the traceback shows you were using /usr/bin/easy_install. Try this:
sudo /usr/local/bin/easy_install ...
Try
sudo easy_install Distribute
and if that exists, but is too old
sudo easy_install -U Distribute
Looks like either Distribute/setuptools (it's old name) is messed up or Python package settings. If either of these do not help, try removing the full Python 2.7 installation and reinstall everything from the scratch.
Possible reasons for the mess is that you have used both sudo easy_install / sudo pip and Linux distribution packages to mix and match system-wide installation packages. You should use virtualenv instead if you use pip/easy_install (no sudo needed)
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
I had a similar problem, but things were working fine as root. In my case, I found that the permissions on the python packages were not readable by the ID I was running the command under.
To correct it, I ran the following command to open the permission for read and execute to all users:
sudo chmod o+rx -R /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/*.egg
I had similar issue when trying to install package via pip with python 3.6 on windows. (pip is supposed to work out of the box with this install)
The problem was not running as administrator.
Running cmd as administrator and then installing my package worked:
python -m pip install pylint
I was trying to get pip to work on the 2.7.0 version, but it seems like it doesn't come with the easy_install/pip files (Script folder in main directory), installing 2.7.13 solved the problem for me.

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