Why is Python easy_install not working on my Mac?

Question

I have a Mac running Python 2.6. When I try to use easy_install I get this message:

/usr/bin/easy_install-2.6:7: UserWarning: Module pkg_resourc         


        

Answer 1

Your setuptools installation is broken. The easy_install-2.6 script in your /usr/bin directory, is only a wrapper that loads the actual easy_install module in your Python installation, and the latter is missing. Presumably uninstalling pip either broke the pointer to it (usually in the form of a .pth file in your site-packages directory) or removed the whole package but didn't remove the /usr/bin/easy_install-2.6 wrapper script.

Your best bet is to re-install setuptools from scratch again, by following the instructions on the setuptools PyPI page.