docker-compose pip install fails with pip 10.0.0

[soundsgoodsofar]

Description of the issue

We're running docker-compose on CentOS. The pip version when installed with --upgrade changed to 10.0.0 in the last couple days and our docker install (pip install docker-compose) began failing with the following message. It appears that pip 10.0.0 has increased the version dependency of package requests to 2.6.0, which is incompatible with the default docker-compose installation.

Context information (for bug reports)

Output of "docker-compose version"
N/A

Output of "docker version"
Client:
 Version:	18.03.0-ce
 API version:	1.37
 Go version:	go1.9.4
 Git commit:	0520e24
 Built:	Wed Mar 21 23:09:15 2018
 OS/Arch:	linux/amd64
 Experimental:	false
 Orchestrator:	swarm

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:	18.03.0-ce
  API version:	1.37 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:	go1.9.4
  Git commit:	0520e24
  Built:	Wed Mar 21 23:13:03 2018
  OS/Arch:	linux/amd64
  Experimental:	false

Output of "docker-compose config"
N/A

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Install CentOS 7
2. yum install -y epel-release
3. yum install -y python-pip
4. pip install --upgrade pip
5. pip install docker-compose

Observed result

Install fails

Expected result

Install succeeds

Stacktrace / full error message

$ pip install docker-compose
...
  Found existing installation: requests 2.6.0
Cannot uninstall 'requests'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

Additional information

OS version / distribution, docker-compose install method, etc.

[ningthoujam-lokhendro]

I have the same issue. Workaround for now would be not to upgrade the pip to 10.x.

[yuriwoof]

I also have same and downgrade pip to 9.0.3.

[jamiejackson]

Also an issue on RHEL 7.4. Temporarily working around the problem by doing the same as @hermesian, using:

sudo pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pip==9.0.3

[shin-]

After looking at this more closely, it looks like this is mostly a pip / Linux distribution issue:

• pip 10 no longer uninstalls distutils packages  pypa/pip#4805
• Upgrading to pip 10: It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall. pypa/pip#5247

My takeaway here is that it's not Compose's responsibility to fix, nor would we be able to even if we wanted to.

Downgrading pip is probably a reasonable course of action for the short term (other reasonable options: virtualenv, Compose binaries). In the long term, the way yum installs some Python packages probably needs to change.

[KittenLeo]

The same question
Found existing installation: requests 2.6.0
Cannot uninstall 'requests'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

[Sabya1981]

And the issue still persists....

[ghost]

I have solved this issue using python3.
At first I checked if python3 is installed

Then I find all the available python paths:

And finally, I used update-alternatives to make python3 default

[naomatheus]

@ghost
This solution worked for me as well on EC2.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 1

Followed by:

python --version 
>> 3.9.xx

pip install docker-compose

Success.

[pkilpo]

Did not work for me even python3.

[ec2-user@ip-10-232-145-56 ~]$ python --version
Python 3.9.16
[ec2-user@ip-10-232-145-56 ~]$

 sudo pip3 install docker-compose
...

 Found existing installation: requests 2.25.1
ERROR: Cannot uninstall requests 2.25.1, RECORD file not found. Hint: The package was installed by rpm.

But it works without "sudo"
pip install docker-compose