Can't install via pip because of egg_info error

Question

No matter which package I\'m trying to install, I get this error:

error: invalid command \'egg_info\'

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Answer 1

I'll add this in here as my problem had something todo with my virtualenv:

I hadn't activated my virtual environment and was trying to install my requirements, this ultimately led to my install failing and throwing this error message.

So make sure you activate your virtualenv!