Python pip unable to locate pyodbc

Question

Using virtualenv and just trying to install pyodbc. All resources I can find claim this should be extremely straightforward. After all the basic installs of MySQL, etc., jus

Answer 1

I just tried installing pyodbc as well and hit the same wall. I think the problem you and I both hit is that --allow-external consumes the next argument as well. So you actually need to write:

sudo pip install --allow-external pyodbc pyodbc

I then hit another error about unverified sources so that command that actually worked for me was:

sudo pip install --allow-external pyodbc --allow-unverified pyodbc pyodbc

Note that once that was done the permissions on the installed files prevented normal users from access pyodbc. So I went in manually adjusted the permissions on all installed packages (seemed easier than finding just the files needed by pyodbc).

cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/
chmod -R o=g dist-packages

As per the suggestion of EMS I have added an issue to the Pip bug tracker. It can be found at:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1893