pip is showing error 'lsb_release -a' returned non-zero exit status 1

Question

I am trying to install packages using pip and it is throwing error.

Command that I have used,

sudo pip install selenium

The error

Answer 1

After installing python from source on Debian-9 (I did install those packages however) I had the same issue. This is how I solved it:

/usr/local/bin/python3.x -m venv 
. /bin/activate
easy_install pip
easy_install setuptools
easy_install wheel
pip install -U setuptools wheel pip