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

virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments.

you will need to add the following to fix command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1, so inside your requirements.txt add this:

virtualenv==12.0.7