Installation error

[mh-github]

cryptics $ pip install -r 'requirements.txt'
Collecting PyYAML>=3.11 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Using cached PyYAML-3.12.tar.gz
Collecting msgpack-python>=0.4.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
Using cached msgpack-python-0.4.8.tar.gz
Collecting nltk<3.0,>2.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
Using cached nltk-2.0.5.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.21.tar.gz
Extracting in /tmp/tmpNfbMEB
Now working in /tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21
Building a Distribute egg in /tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 37, in
exec(open(init_path).read(), d)
File "", line 8, in
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/setuptools/init.py", line 2, in
from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/setuptools/extension.py", line 2, in
from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/setuptools/dist.py", line 6, in
from setuptools.command.install import install
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/setuptools/command/init.py", line 8, in
from setuptools.command import install_scripts
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py", line 3, in
from pkg_resources import Distribution, PathMetadata, ensure_directory
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/pkg_resources.py", line 2729, in
add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/pkg_resources.py", line 700, in subscribe
callback(dist)
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/pkg_resources.py", line 2729, in
add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/pkg_resources.py", line 2229, in activate
self.insert_on(path)
File "/tmp/tmpNfbMEB/distribute-0.6.21/pkg_resources.py", line 2330, in insert_on
"with distribute. Found one at %s" % str(self.location))
ValueError: A 0.7-series setuptools cannot be installed with distribute. Found one at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk/distribute-0.6.21-py2.7.egg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk/setup.py", line 23, in
distribute_setup.use_setuptools()
File "/tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk/distribute_setup.py", line 145, in use_setuptools
return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay)
File "/tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk/distribute_setup.py", line 125, in _do_download
_build_egg(egg, tarball, to_dir)
File "/tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk/distribute_setup.py", line 116, in _build_egg
raise IOError('Could not build the egg.')
IOError: Could not build the egg.

----------------------------------------

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ObXXvJ/nltk/

[rdeits]

I think you're hitting pypa/setuptools#543 . Can you do pip install --upgrade setuptools and try again?

[mh-github]

Yes that worked. No more errors with pip install -r 'requirements.txt'

[rdeits]

Great, thanks!