DistributionNotFound error after upgrading pip

Question

In reading about virtualenv here I realized I didn\'t have pip 1.3+, so I ran pip install --upgrade pip and now when I run pip --version i get the

Answer 1

There is no need to uninstall python and install it back. Get the latest distribute package installed and then update pip with it should do the trick.

wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
sudo python ez_setup.py
sudo easy_install -U pip