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I am on an RHEL5 machine, and I installed pip by running the get-pip.py file as suggested on the pip website. Upon trying to install a couple different modules using pip, I ran into an error traceback identical to the first one in this post: Error installing python packages on Fedora

However, THERE IS NO ISSUE WITH MY PYTHON VERSION. I am running 2.7.6. The supposedly successfully installed pip version is 1.5.6. Has anybody seen this problem before? Does anyone know how to fix it?

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  • RHEL5 is super old, and probably has Python 2.4 installed (in addition to 2.7.6, which I'm assuming you installed yourself). Is it possible that pip is using 2.4? – dano Jul 03 '14 at 18:23
  • Yes, RHEL has 2.4 installed as well. I suspected that was the problem, but I am not sure how to tell pip to look at 2.7 instead. – user2073068 Jul 03 '14 at 18:39
  • What command did you use to run `get-pip.py`? – dano Jul 03 '14 at 18:42
  • `sudo python get-pip.py`, and I made sure that the python that is used when making calls from the terminal is 2.7. – user2073068 Jul 03 '14 at 18:56
  • if you open up the pip script itself (`vim \`which pip\``), what python executable is it using (`#!/usr/bin/`)? – dano Jul 03 '14 at 19:01
  • The wrong one! I fixed it, but now there is a new error whenever I run pip with a traceback that ends in `pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==1.5.6`. I can't show the full traceback for contractual reasons, but I hope that is enough. – user2073068 Jul 03 '14 at 19:08
  • Hmm, if you re-run the pip installation with `python2.7 get-pip.py`, does that fix things? – dano Jul 03 '14 at 19:30
  • That just results in `Requirement already up-to-date`...`python2.7/site-packages`. Pip is already associated with 2.7, but something else is somehow going wrong. – user2073068 Jul 03 '14 at 19:43

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