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Registered: 2013-02-06

Posts: 7

using pip from archlinux : No module named 'pkg_resources'

I recently wanted to install a python package via pip, specifically presto-python-client. Then I installed python-pip. Then I tried installing the package:

```
pip install presto-python-client
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
```

And also the same error via sudo.

Then I read elsewhere that pkg_resources was part of setup_tools so installed python-setuptools.

However I still got the same error.

yan12125

Member

Registered: 2017-11-01

Posts: 36

Re: using pip from archlinux : No module named 'pkg_resources'

You may have messed up your Python installation. Try to reinstall all Python packages, or at least python, python-setuptools and python-pip.

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: using pip from archlinux : No module named 'pkg_resources'

It should be entirely impossible to install python-pip without having setuptools be automatically installed as a dependency...

Did you do a partial update? Do you have part of your system installed as python3.7 and part of your system held back on python3.6?

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