Python error - “ImportError: cannot import name 'dist'”

Question

I\'m on Ubuntu 16.04, and I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"/home/omermazig/.virtualenvs/fixi/bin/pip\", line 7, in 
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Answer 1

Take a loot at this (similar problem): https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5367

Possible fix:

• Download Python source from https://www.python.org/
• Decompress the source code

• Install the following dependencies:

  sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev (needed to compile Python)

• and install:

sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev (needed by Pip to make SSL requests)

• Compile and install Python:

/configure

make

make install

• Python 3.6 with Pip should be installed.

Full credit to jonbesga.