ImportError: module 'setuptools.dist' has no 'check_specifier' attribute

Question

Ceph teuthology installation fails with following error on Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 4.4.0-51-generic:

ImportError: 

        

Answer 1

For python 3 and later 3.x, use pip3

sudo pip3 install setuptools --upgrade

No need to use sudo for a virtual environment or in admin console of windows,so use simply

pip3 install setuptools --upgrade