Failed to install pip for pypy on Ubuntu

Question

I cannot install pip for pypy 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.10.

I downloaded pypy 4.0.1 from http://pypy.org/download.html. Created a symlink for it. And used wget to download get-pip.py from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py.

But when I ran sudo pypy get-pip.py, I got exception:

Collecting pip
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/basecommand.py", line 211, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/commands/install.py", line 294, in run
      requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/req/req_set.py", line 334, in prepare_files
      functools.partial(self._prepare_file, finder))
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/req/req_set.py", line 321, in _walk_req_to_install
      more_reqs = handler(req_to_install)
    File "/opt/pypy-4.0.1-linux64/lib_pypy/_functools.py", line 42, in __call__
      return self._func(*(self._args + fargs), **fkeywords)
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/req/req_set.py", line 491, in _prepare_file
      session=self.session)
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/download.py", line 825, in unpack_url
      session,
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/download.py", line 673, in unpack_http_url
      from_path, content_type = _download_http_url(link, session, temp_dir)
    File "/tmp/tmps2kjCI/pip.zip/pip/download.py", line 885, in _download_http_url
      with open(file_path, 'wb') as content_file:
    TypeError: expected string, got NoneType object

I could run sudo python get-pip.py without problem but failed with pypy. I also tried Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 but no luck.

I have Python 2.7.10 installed and I'm using a Linode machine. But changed to a DigitalOcean one didn't help.

Hmm. [According to the documentation](http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/install.html) I don't see anything wrong with what you've done other than Ubuntu 15.10 isn't listed on the pypy site as being built against — OneCricketeer, Jan 02 '16 at 14:13
OK. Seems like downgrading PyPy to 2.7.0 solves this problem for now. But it would be really helpful if someone can point out why the latest PyPy doesn't work. — jerry.z, Jan 02 '16 at 14:32
Works for me (same Ubuntu 15.10 and same PyPy 4.0.1 on 64-bit Linux)... — Armin Rigo, Jan 02 '16 at 16:39
You could also try `pypy -m ensurepip`, which works like it does in the recent variants of CPython 2.7.x — Armin Rigo, Jan 02 '16 at 16:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 27 '21 at 17:20

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How about installing PyPy from the Ubuntu archives sudo apt install pypy. Or if you want the latest version, from the PyPy PPA

Then if you create a virtualenv, it will have pip inside it:

$ sudo apt-get install virtualenv
$ virtualenv -p pypy ve
$ source ./ve/bin/activate
$ pip install ...

edited Oct 27 '21 at 17:20

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answered Jan 02 '16 at 16:40

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You don't need a particular PyPy to use virtualenv in this way; these commands should work with any PyPy. – Armin Rigo Jan 02 '16 at 16:41
No, that was intentionally `apt`. The question was posed as being on Ubuntu 15.04, which has the new, pretty, `apt` command. – tumbleweed Jan 15 '16 at 19:18
Well, on ubuntu 16.04, this will crash when creating the virtuelenv. – Ant6n Oct 03 '16 at 15:05

luisurrutia · Answer 2 · 2016-10-03T16:06:19.167

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I had the same issue, and the solution is easy, yo have to run this command:

export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8

And then run the pip installation.

You should add this line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile in the server, even you can add it to /etc/environment to have it in a global way. (If someone has a better solution, please tell me)

Edit (2016-10):

Above is the global and lazy solution for any other distribution. If you're in ubuntu, you need to reconfigure the locales and you can do it with:

sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

edited Oct 03 '16 at 16:06

answered Feb 10 '16 at 11:45

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Can you explain what this solution does? – Ant6n Oct 03 '16 at 15:06
Well, i don't remember why (almost 7 month ago), but when you have a fresh install of ubuntu server you have to configure the locale, this parameters are used by many applications to determine the encoding and another things. Answer edited to add ubuntu commands. – luisurrutia Oct 03 '16 at 16:02

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