Why is PIP raising an AssertionError on pip freeze?

Question

My console:

desarrollador@desarrollador-HP-14-Notebook-PC1:~$ pip freeze  
Exception:  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist         


        

Answer 1

Reason: The python-pip package in Ubuntu 12.04 is seriously outdated and has some bugs with certain package names (as I can see) and cannot parse them correctly.

Solution: install a newer version of pip, via easy_install.