pip – Python. How to solve setuptools must be installed to install from a source distribution

pip – Python. How to solve setuptools must be installed to install from a source distribution

Its a known problem.

pip install -U setuptools
pip install -U pip

Just helped me.

Note: a reasonable person would never sudo pip install anything.
OSs Python should be managed by the OSs package manager; strong-arming your system Python installation has been many times seen to break your OS in interesting ways.

To pip install anything, use virtualenv or an equivalent.

pip – Python. How to solve setuptools must be installed to install from a source distribution

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