Pythonsetuptools pkg_resources pip wheel failed with error code 1 [Error]

Question

I got the following error while creating virtual environment on ubuntu 16.04.

OSError: Command /home/ubuntu/.virtua...skdeploy/bin/python2 - setuptools pkg_resources pip wheel failed with error code 1

Answer 1

Add the following locale variables.

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

and run virtualenv command again

Answer 2

First try this 1)

`sudo apt-get install python-setuptools`

and

2)

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"