virtualenv error: "'.../bin/easy_install' not found"

Question

using python3.3 on OS X 10.7.5

when i run

virtualenv-3.3 virtualenv/

it errors on

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '.../virtualenv/bin/easy_install'

after

Overwriting virtualenv/lib/python3.3/site.py with new content
Overwriting virtualenv/lib/python3.3/orig-prefix.txt with new content
Overwriting virtualenv/lib/python3.3/no-global-site-packages.txt with new content
New python executable in virtualenv/bin/python3.3
Not overwriting existing python script virtualenv/bin/python (you must use virtualenv/bin/python3.3)
Overwriting virtualenv/lib/python3.3/distutils/__init__.py with new content
File virtualenv/lib/python3.3/distutils/distutils.cfg exists with different content; not overwriting
Installing distribute...done.
Installing pip...

my system has setuptools / distribute.

why isn't virtualenv setting up easy_install?

There seems to be an issue on github about this: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/281 Do you have the latest version of virtualenv? — halflings, Dec 15 '13 at 18:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 15 '19 at 00:14

This issue is related to having an outdated version of Pip, I think.

I got a similar error on CEntOS 6.3.

I suggest at least attempting to bootstrap a virtual environment. If it doesn't work, all you have to lose are some megabytes and a 20 minutes of your time.

What you will need:

Compiled Python3.4
Source of the latest VirtualEnv
Fortitude
Pen and paper

Something similar to the answer outlined here might work: What's the proper way to install pip, virtualenv, and distribute for Python?

In short, download the virtualenv package from source from PyPI, extract it, and cd into the directory created by the extraction.

From the documentation:

$ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz 
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ cd virtualenv-X.X

Replace the X.X above with the version number. For example, cd virtualenv-X.X would, after replacing the Xs with the right version number, be cd virtualenv-13.1.2.

Then, use virtualenv.py from there, not just $ virtualenv, but $ ./virtualenv.py.

I hope that this would work much better, since pip with the latest virtualenv will include easy_install in the expected location.

I have tested this on a CEntOS 6.3 machine with a similar configuration. It works on there, but I cannot afford a copy of OS X 10.7.5.

virtualenv error: "'.../bin/easy_install' not found"

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