Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2]

Question

I`ve recently started having problems with pip installs. Every time I run this kind of command in Terminal, I get an error:

Could not install packages due to:

EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/'me'/'me'/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tqdm-4.11.2.dist-info/METADATA'

Does anyone know what's wrong? Didn't have this issue a month ago. Please help! Just in case: the error above popped up when i wrote pip install gender-guesser.

Answer 1

I met the same problem and this might work for you cd into the location where metadata.json exists and type this command cp metadata.json METADATA then you could do sudo pip install

Answer 2

Try to reinstall tqdm with conda. And then you can install packages with pip.

conda install tqdm

Wait until it done. Then you can do:

pip install gender-guesser

Answer 3

I faced the same problem.

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/myusr/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip-19.0.1.dist-info/METADATA'

I followed the angrypig298 solution but it didn't work for me. The first part was ok.

conda install tqdm

But the second part got the same error of pip cannot find the METADATA file.

pip install gender-guesser

Based on other answers, I used the find command to find the METADATA in my machine and I found it in a subdirectory.

find ~/.local/ -name  "*METADATA*" | grep pip

The METADATA was in

/home/myuser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip-19.0.1.dist-info/pip-19.0.1.dist-info/METADATA

I copy it to the path where the pip command is looking for it, which is one directory above it.

/home/myuser/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip-9.0.1.dist-info/METADATA

Then the pip worked normally.

Answer 4

I use Pycharm. I have solved with problem with copy file METADATA from \AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\pip-19.0.1.dist-info\pip-19.0.1.dist-info to higher level \AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\pip-19.0.1.dist-info