pip cannot install anything

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> pip install yolk Downloading/unpacking yolk   Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/   Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement yolk No distributions at all found for yolk Storing complete log in /Users/harith/.pip/pip.log 

when I read the file I see

> cat /Users/harith/.pip/pip.log ------------------------------------------------------------ /Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/bin/pip run on Mon Jul  1 20:26:02 2013 Downloading/unpacking yolk    Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/   Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable   Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/ when looking for download links for yolk   Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/   Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable   Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/ when looking for download links for yolk   Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/    URLs to search for versions for yolk:   * https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/   Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/   Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable   Will skip URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/yolk/ when looking for download links for yolk   Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement yolk  No distributions at all found for yolk      Exception information:     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 139, in main         status = self.run(options, args)       File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 266, in run         requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)       File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1026, in prepare_files         url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)       File "/Users/harith/.shared/virtualenvs/pennytracker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 171, in find_requirement         raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % req)     DistributionNotFound: No distributions at all found for yolk 

Am i doing anything wrong?

Answer 1

I used to use the easy_install pip==1.2.1 workaround but I randomly found that if you're having this bug, you probably installed a 32bit version of python on a 64bit machine.

In short : If you install a 64bit version of it by installing it from the source and then build your virtualenv upon it, you wont have that pip bug anymore.

Answer 2

It's because in the pip configuration the index-url parameter should point to the new pypi url. Change the file in ~/.pip/pip.conf or if you are running pip as root, in: /root/.pip/pip.conf.

Probably you have this:

 [global]  index-url=http://f.pypi.python.org/simple 

You shoudl change it for this:

  [global]   index-url=https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ 

And then all should work as before. I hope it helps you.