What does a "Could not find .egg-info directory in install record" from pip mean?

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Since updating the the most recent setuptools (6.0.1) I get an warning (yellow)

Could not find .egg-info directory in install record for ...

for all the packages I've updated. For example, when updating Twisted I get

Could not find .egg-info directory in install record for Twisted from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Twisted/Twisted-14.0.2.tar.bz2#md5=.... in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages

The package updates seems to succeed, however.

What does this warning mean? What can I do to respond to it?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/256417/python-packages-and-egg-info-directories I am not totally sure either.. Maybe this will help you in the right direction.. best of luck — brunsgaard, Sep 29 '14 at 02:33
Wild guess: did you install some packages, like Twisted, without pip? — Eric O. Lebigot, Sep 29 '14 at 02:51
If your answer to @EOL is yes, did you also upgrade to a new version of `pip`? Because IIRC, it was around 1.5 that `pip` started being able to upgrade some non-`pip`-installed packages, and because that's not always safe it may warn you about it. — abarnert, Sep 29 '14 at 05:10
See [this distutils-sig thread](https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-August/022528.html); I'm not sure if it's what I was thinking about or not… — abarnert, Sep 29 '14 at 05:12
@EOL: I don't recall. I've been maintaining with `pip` for quite some time now, so my guess is that all my packages have been previously updated using it. If that (or anything else) is the case, is there something I can do about it? — orome, Sep 29 '14 at 12:22

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '16 at 04:54

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For me upgrading setuptools did not work, what did work was updating pip:

pip install --upgrade setuptools pip

(I've included setuptools too to handle both problems)

answered Apr 22 '16 at 04:54

Antony Hatchkins

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i had to run `python.exe -m pip install --upgrade setuptools pip`. After the upgrade the warning disappeared. – Laszlo Jun 25 '18 at 18:05
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Thanks, this answer saved lots of my time – Ehsan Sep 02 '18 at 08:49

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '14 at 18:41

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This appears to have been a bug introduced in 6.0.1, fixed in setuptools 6.0.2.

answered Sep 30 '14 at 18:41

orome

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What does a "Could not find .egg-info directory in install record" from pip mean?

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