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pip install throwing TypeError after updating every pip package

I ran an update to every pip package:
pip freeze --local | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 pip install -U
After that I'm running to a problem with: pip install pygame
Is throwing an error:
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 223, in _main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 180, in wrapper
return func(self, options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 320, in run
requirement_set = resolver.resolve(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/resolver.py", line 121, in resolve
self._result = resolver.resolve(
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 481, in resolve
state = resolution.resolve(requirements, max_rounds=max_rounds)
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 348, in resolve
self._add_to_criteria(self.state.criteria, r, parent=None)
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 147, in _add_to_criteria
matches = self._p.find_matches(
TypeError: PipProvider.find_matches() got an unexpected keyword argument 'identifier'
pip version: 20.3.4
python version: 3.10.1

Your using the old version of pip. upgrading to 21.3.1 might fix any issues with your current installation
To update pip for windows use:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
For Linux use:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip -r error at in bash script

#!/bin/bash -e
pip install -r requirements.txt
when I execute above script I get below error message;
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 257, in run
InstallRequirement.from_line(name, None))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 173, in from_line
return cls(req, comes_from, url=url, prereleases=prereleases)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 71, in __init__
req = pkg_resources.Requirement.parse(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2667, in parse
reqs = list(parse_requirements(s))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2593, in parse_requirements
raise ValueError("Missing distribution spec", line)
ValueError: ('Missing distribution spec', '\xe2\x80\x93r')
Storing debug log for failure in /home/user/.pip/pip.log
But if I execute
pip install –r requirements.txt
directly by bash, it works fine. what could be the reason?
Below are the python and pip version I have;
user#ubuntu:~$ python -V
Python 2.7.6
user#ubuntu:~$ pip -V
pip 1.5.4 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)
user#ubuntu:~$

\xe2\x80\x93
That's a UTF-8 encoded en dash. Be sure to use the usual (ASCII) dash.
In other words, replace this:
pip install –r requirements.txt
with this:
pip install -r requirements.txt

Python Pip Install "Egg" Error (Pandas and other modules)

Having issues installing some python modules (for example pandas) and also had some issues installing ipython notebook.
This error seems to have come up before for other folks (Python pip install fails: invalid command egg_info), but they were using Python 2.7, whereas I'm using 2.6 (default with my Mac OS 10.6). Also I tried easy_install -U setuptools and pip install --upgrade setuptools but neither worked.
This is the error I get for installing pandas:
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/Wm/WmmbYincEnuCrAMtGBudAk+++TM/-Tmp-/pip_build_AWal/pandas
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/AWal/Library/Logs/pip.log
For installing iPython, this is the error that I get:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/req.py", line 671, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/req.py", line 901, in move_wheel_files
pycompile=self.pycompile,
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/wheel.py", line 341, in move_wheel_files
generated.extend(maker.make_multiple(['%s = %s' % kv for kv in console.items()]))
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line 316, in make_multiple
filenames.extend(self.make(specification, options))
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line 305, in make
self._make_script(entry, filenames, options=options)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line 209, in _make_script
self._write_script(scriptnames, shebang, script, filenames, ext)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line 189, in _write_script
self._fileop.write_binary_file(outname, script_bytes)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.5.4-py2.6.egg/pip/_vendor/distlib/util.py", line 384, in write_binary_file
with open(path, 'wb') as f:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/bin/sphinx-apidoc'
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/AWal/Library/Logs/pip.log
Any thoughts on what to do?
UPDATE:
When I do sudo pip install pandas (another module that I can't install), I get a long long traceback with the end error message:
RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program
And traceback (a sample of it of the 100 or so lines) looks like this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "/private/tmp/pip_build_root/pandas/setup.py", line 619, in <module>
**setuptools_kwargs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 266, in __init__
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 312, in fetch_build_eggs
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 753, in resolve
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1005, in best_match
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1017, in obtain
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 379, in fetch_build_egg
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 619, in easy_install

A permission Denied message would suggest you to run your command as root as suggested by Hackaholic.
try sudo pip install YOUR_PACKAGE
You might also want to have a look at virtualenv to use a more isolated environment.
Under debian based distributions, you might install python-virtualenv package with apt-get install python-virtualenv.
Then create a virtual environment names whatever by typing virtualenv whatever (this will create a folder whatever inside your current folder.
Then cd to it and type bin/activate to enter this virtual environment.
From there try again your pip install command.
Might help
UPDATE :
You might try to use the suggested solutions available here
To sumup, try to add export ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future inside ~/.bash_profile

This question comes first in Google, but the second one actually worked:
pip install -U setuptools
pip install ez_setup

How to fix error “Expected version spec in …” using pip install on Windows?

On a Windows 7 machine I am using the following command to install a package from a local directory:
pip install addons/pnc_tests --upgrade --extra-index-url=http://some_server/simple
which results in the following error:
C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\Scripts\pip-script.py run on 07/16/14 07:50:47
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 258, in run
InstallRequirement.from_line(name, None))
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 173, in from_line
return cls(req, comes_from, url=url, prereleases=prereleases)
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 71, in __init__
req = pkg_resources.Requirement.parse(req)
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pkg_resources.py", line 2667, in parse
reqs = list(parse_requirements(s))
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pkg_resources.py", line 2605, in parse_requirements
line, p, specs = scan_list(VERSION,LINE_END,line,p,(1,2),"version spec")
File "C:\Users\alex\PNC\tas\ENV\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pkg_resources.py", line 2573, in scan_list
raise ValueError("Expected "+item_name+" in",line,"at",line[p:])
ValueError: ('Expected version spec in', 'addons/pnc_tests', 'at', '/pnc_tests')
How to solve this problem?

I guess you are missing the parameter -r;
It must be like this if you have a requirement file to install from;
pip install -r addons/pnc_tests --upgrade --extra-index-url=http://some_server/simple
As it is defined on;
Pip Documentation

One need to replace the slash (/) by a backslash (\):
pip install addons\pnc_tests --upgrade --extra-index-url=http://some_server/simple

On my system I had just specified the wrong directory. Double check your folder names. x_x

unable to use pip with Python 3.2 using distribute

After installing python3.2 from src, I tried running:
curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
sudo python3.2 distribute_setup.py
sudo python3.2 -m easy_install pip
sudo python3.2 -m pip lxml
This gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/runpy.py", line 140, in _run_module_as_main
mod_name, loader, code, fname = _get_module_details(mod_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/runpy.py", line 110, in _get_module_details
return _get_module_details(pkg_main_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/runpy.py", line 102, in _get_module_details
loader = get_loader(mod_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/pkgutil.py", line 453, in get_loader
return find_loader(fullname)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/pkgutil.py", line 463, in find_loader
for importer in iter_importers(fullname):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/pkgutil.py", line 419, in iter_importers
__import__(pkg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/pip-0.8.2-py3.2.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 56
print dist
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Anyone able to get this working?
Thanks,
Matt

There is version of pip working with Python 3.
See my answer to Python 3, easy_install, pip and pypi question.

print dist is invalid in Python3. It should be print(dist).
However, with this error it is very likely that pip is not compatible with Python3. According to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip it also does not support Python3.