Solving Python virtualenv “DistributionNotFound: distribute”
By Rayed
After upgrading my Ubuntu machine from 12.04 to 14.04 I had this error on virtualenv wrapper:
stevedore.extension distribute Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stevedore/extension.py”, line 75, in _load_plugins invoke_kwds, File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stevedore/extension.py”, line 87, in _load_one_plugin plugin = ep.load() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 2087, in load if require: self.require(env, installer) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 2100, in require working_set.resolve(self.dist.requires(self.extras),env,installer))) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 628, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) DistributionNotFound: distribute
After some investigation I found out the cause of the error, it seems that I’ve installed virtualenv-wrapper using pip and not Ubuntu apt-get, so when I installed it using apt-get it conflicted with the pip installation.
Solution
- Remove virtualenvwrapper Ubuntu package:
sudo aptitude remove virtualenvwrapper - Remove virtualenvwrapper pip package:
sudo pip uninstall virtualenvwrapper virtualenv-clone virtualenv stevedore - Reinstall virtualenvwrapper Ubuntu package:
sudo aptitude install virtualenvwrapper