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

In my case, I had to uninstall pip and reinstall it. So I could install my specific version.

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove python-pip
sudo easy_install pip