No module named pkg_resources

Question

I\'m deploying a Django app to a dev server and am hitting this error when I run pip install -r requirements.txt:

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Answer 1

After trying several of these answers, then reaching out to a colleague, what worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04 was:

pip install --force-reinstall -U setuptools
pip install --force-reinstall -U pip

In my case, it was only an old version of pillow 3.1.1 that was having trouble (pillow 4.x worked fine), and that's now resolved!