sudo easy_install frida

[timuric]

When trying to install frida via easy_install get this error:

Searching for frida
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/frida/
No local packages or download links found for frida
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('frida')

[karltk]

Which OS are you on? Can you run

$ python -V

and

$ easy_install --version

[timuric]

Sorry forgot to mention that. I am running macosx 10.9

easy_install --version:
setuptools 1.4.2

python -V:
Python 2.7.5

[karltk]

I've tried to reproduce your problem, but so far, without success.

This is what I got so far:

• easy_install of Frida works just fine when you run easy_install 0.6.x. The 0.6.x version is what seems to ship with OSX 10.9 by default, and also Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This version of easy_install is part of the the distribute project.
• Later versions (0.7.x and up) of easy_install are part of the setuptools project, and are a bit more tricky to install on a system that already has easy_install 0.6.x on it. However, I jumped through a few hoops and now I have 1.4.2 running on my Ubuntu, and also on a box running OSX 10.9.
• When running easy_install1.4.2 with Python 2.7.5 on OSX version 10.9, Frida installs just fine.

Can you try

$ easy_install --verbose frida 

(or easy_install --user --verbose frida, to install into your user's home dir instead of the system paths)?

[timuric]

Both commands produce: error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('frida')

But now I am suspecting that something is wrong with my python environment. Because it works on other laptop.

[guillehorno]

I have the same problem on macosx 10.9

Python 2.7.6
setuptools 2.1

[karltk]

Where did you guys get your newer versions of setuptools? Brew? What does which easy_install give you?

[guillehorno]

I reinstalled it the recommended way, doing

wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python

I updated it to the 2.1 version (I had 2.0 before).

easy_install is on /usr/local/bin/easy_install

[karltk]

Curious. My OSX system is

$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.9.1
BuildVersion:   13B42

At the outset, easy_install is so old that it doesn't respect --version (A bit of digging in /Library/Python/2.7 tells me it's version 0.6c12).

I executed

wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python

After that /usr/local/bin/easy_install --version tells me

setuptools 2.1

Running /usr/local/bin/easy_install --user frida works just fine for me.

Do you still have a /usr/bin/easy_install? What if you try that one?

If not, or if that doesn't help, can you give me the full trace of easy_install --verbose frida?

[guillehorno]

I still had a /usr/bin/easy_install

Using the old version (sudo /usr/bin/easy_install frida) worked :)

[koto]

It seems like OSX 10.9 is required. You might want to document it.

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/easy_install --verbose --user frida
Searching for frida
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/frida/
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/f/frida/frida-1.0.0-py2.6-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=8a017ffc98c869af58659799e22b7435
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/f/frida/frida-1.0.1-py2.6-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=b5ef342fb4fe6d03e296ff9cdebf80ef
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/f/frida/frida-1.0.2-py2.6-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=5625a86d305a198538bbeb6f6f9d3142
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/f/frida/frida-1.0.3-py2.6-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=bca726bf2e50ddd7af6afd9005f34832
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/f/frida/frida-1.0.4-py2.6-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=c90b349f41c41914905e7fd93805c7ac
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py2.6-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=3dff665ddd40f1c9ba7004908ed6c7c7
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=9d2886718a292a5d9a9b138e728a8ba7
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.0-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=43f6a94b9b8f5ef70bdfc391a1015368
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.0-py2.7-win-amd64.egg#md5=8029d3674168d2e6af451a2f70978984
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.0-py2.7-win32.egg#md5=ff28a2bd6eb6c6f8005c98b3bd87df91
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=01dafb3786ba79508a33d5aef603fe12
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.1-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=9f4d67e1613652587c3b53b8fea07f07
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.1-py2.7-win-amd64.egg#md5=486f4e0b828cf47bd0481ac812de768e
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.1-py2.7-win32.egg#md5=eba388272489b86240239d49ef6eab7b
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=5931df91ab4c6ca761b4a8b2cc325ab3
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.2-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=4c73573d0a6bda1029cd6031fa773238
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.2-py2.7-win-amd64.egg#md5=f1d46797efd5ea69a6931b62aaced806
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.2-py2.7-win32.egg#md5=ad1751118dfdc5aef87a00352ee410ce
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=7d1b377edfbcd79121f87af24bea4c43
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.3-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=49e308d07a472b7026063a24452c2a0a
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.3-py2.7-win-amd64.egg#md5=426227ec64c652ac7ff883d6db8329dd
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.3-py2.7-win32.egg#md5=241591afeca48c49638eea46360eb0ec
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=fc2def5599be2f293e6aea941aeffeea
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.4-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=be5b0a2c4b6962b638712dd7166221d0
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.4-py2.7-win-amd64.egg#md5=84bc1388e569c0fbc1f3007010e9e9f2
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.4-py2.7-win32.egg#md5=b9fb0f16cd5332936286e5571e632dec
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=524b6e8578c9e3856af4ebb2f6316163
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg#md5=a4c0a72ef48d74f5237c50caa59e56e2
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py2.7-win-amd64.egg#md5=2e9a8e0d632dd0eb244a37b5f05484cc
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py2.7-win32.egg#md5=f5230632f005c7593694cc8bc65c16e1
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.3/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py3.3-linux-x86_64.egg#md5=c8e4623547d541be4ef3d4faf73cf87f
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.3/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py3.3-macosx-10.6-intel.egg#md5=2ee50e1996f3819b200438599a82e440
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.3/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py3.3-win-amd64.egg#md5=dc8da823bce9ff3da888cdfb542e13e2
Found link: https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.3/f/frida/frida-1.0.5-py3.3-win32.egg#md5=7e181a875c61b53f4d298a2619c699fa
No local packages or download links found for frida
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('frida')
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.7.5
BuildVersion: 11G63b

[oleavr]

@koto Aha! Frida is compatible with OS X >= 10.7, but the python .egg hasn't been tested on < 10.9. I'll investigate if it's possible to build a proper pip-compatible binary package that isn't restricted to one specific version of OS X.

[oleavr]

Considering this a bug in the current packaging of frida-python. Related to frida/frida-python#13.