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

Hm.. puzzling. Wonder where that 1.2.1 comes from. Just out of curiosity, could you post the contents of /usr/local/bin/pip? Should only be a couple of lines.

You could try updating pip (again) with distribute, and maybe also distribute itself..

easy_install --upgrade distribute
easy_install --upgrade pip