Pip install error. Setuptools.command not found

Question

I\'m using a clean instance of Ubuntu server and would like to install some python packages in my virtualenv.

I receive the following output from the command \'pip i

Answer 1

Elaborating @elyase's Answer. First check for which python version you want to install setuptools. Normally both python versions comes default with debian or any linux distro. So, as per your requirement install setup tools using apt package manager

For python 2.x

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

For python 3.x

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools