The 'pip==7.1.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application

Question

I have the latest version of pip 8.1.1 on my ubuntu 16. But I am not able to install any modules via pip as I get this error all the time.

File \"/usr/local/         


        

Answer 1

After a large upgrade in Mint -> 19, my system was a bit weird and I came across this problem too.

I checked the answer from @amangpt777 that may be the one to try

/usr/local/bin/pip # -> actually had a shebang calling python3

~/.local/bin/pip* # files were duplicated with the "sudo installed" /usr/local/bin/pip*

Running

sudo python get-pip.py # with script https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo -H pip install setuptools

seem to solve the problem. I understand this as a problem with the root / user installation of python. Not sure if ananconda3 is also messing around with those scrips.