Can't install via pip because of egg_info error

Question

Found out what was wrong. I never installed the setuptools for python, so it was missing some vital files, like the egg ones.

If you find yourself having my issue above, download this file and then in powershell or command prompt, navigate to ez_setup’s directory and execute the command and this will run the file for you:

$ [sudo] python ez_setup.py

If you still need to install pip at this point, run:

$ [sudo] easy_install pip

easy_install was part of the setuptools, and therefore wouldn't work for installing pip.

Then, pip will successfully install django with the command:

$ [sudo] pip install django

Hope I saved someone the headache I gave myself!

~Zorpix

Try these: pip install --upgrade setuptools or easy_install -U setuptools

For me reinstalling and then upgrading the pip worked.

1. Reinstall pip by using below command or following link How do I install pip on macOS or OS X?

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o - | python

2. Upgrade pip after it's installed

   pip install -U pip

See this : What Python version can I use with Django?¶ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/faq/install/

if you are using python27 you must to set django version :

try: $pip install django==1.9

Having the same error trying to install matplotlib for Python 3, those solutions didn't work for me. It was just a matter of dependencies, though it wasn't clear in the error message.

I used sudo apt-get build-dep python3-matplotlib then sudo pip3 install matplotlib and it worked.

Hope it'll help !

In my case this error message appeared because the package I was trying to install (storm) was not supported for Python 3.

I'll add this in here as my problem had something todo with my virtualenv:

I hadn't activated my virtual environment and was trying to install my requirements, this ultimately led to my install failing and throwing this error message.

So make sure you activate your virtualenv!