Problems getting started on Ubuntu 12.10

[phoebebright]

Like the previous issue, I rushed into installing hitch into an existing virtualenv for an existing project. project uses python 2.7
Pip install hitch worked fine
hitch init gives this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/django/virtualenvs/board/bin/hitch", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/home/django/virtualenvs/board/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2707, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/home/django/virtualenvs/board/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 686, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/home/django/virtualenvs/board/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: click

but click is installed and up to date

 pip install click
 Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): click in /home/django/virtualenvs/board/lib/python2.7/site-packages

So I tried install outside the virtualenv:
Running setup.py install for psutil
Complete output from command /home/django/tcphb/tests/.hitch/virtualenv/bin/python3 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-ho7u3a/psutil/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-8iug73-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/django/tcphb/tests/.hitch/virtualenv/include/site/python3.2/psutil:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/init.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_psosx.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_pssunos.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_pswindows.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_psposix.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_psbsd.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_compat.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_common.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
copying psutil/_pslinux.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
running build_ext
building 'psutil._psutil_linux' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.2
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -DPSUTIL_VERSION=311 -I/usr/include/python3.2mu -c psutil/_psutil_linux.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.2/psutil/_psutil_linux.o
psutil/_psutil_linux.c:12:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/home/django/tcphb/tests/.hitch/virtualenv/bin/python3 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ho7u3a/psutil/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-8iug73-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/django/tcphb/tests/.hitch/virtualenv/include/site/python3.2/psutil" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ho7u3a/psutil
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I don't want to use python 3 generally as some modules I'm using are not compatible, so I'd rather find a way to install using python 2.7

Going to try installing on osx now as this looks like just what I need.

[crdoconnor]

Hi,

It looks like you might not have the necessary packages installed.

Try "sudo apt-get install python-dev build-essential"

Then run hitch clean and then run hitch init again in your tests directory.

I'll update the docs to reflect the fact that you need these packages installed earlier on.

Thanks for reporting!

[crdoconnor]

The DistributionNotFound problem you had in your virtualenv looks like it might be related to this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19400370/easy-install-and-pip-broke-pkg-resources-distributionnotfound-distribute-0-6