Pip cannot find metadata file - EnvironmentError

Question

Whenever I run pip to install the Flask packages like virtualenv in Ubuntu 16.04, I get this error:

pip install virtualenv

Answer 1

I meet the same problem

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado-6.0.4.dist-info/METADATA

then I cd /root/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tornado-6.0.4.dist-info/ && ls

DESCRIPTION.rst  LICENSE.txt  metadata.json

finally, I did cp metadata.json METADATA solved the problem. maybe this is helpful to you.