Virtualenv OSError - setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1

Question

I get the following error message when trying to set up a virtual environment with virtualenv 15.0.2 but receive OSError setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1.

Answer 1

I finally resorted to using conda to set up an environment rather than virtualenv. Apparently virtualenv is not compatible with anaconda.

Info in this link helped me set it up:

https://uoa-eresearch.github.io/eresearch-cookbook/recipe/2014/11/20/conda/

Answer 2

This will work for virtualenv pip wheel errorcode1 problems and also E unable to locate package problems

apt-get update

apt-get install python-software-properties

apt-get install apt-file

apt-file update

apt-get install software-properties-common

apt-get install <your filename>