I am fairly new to python and have tried installing python 2.7.9 following the steps described here. The installation failed with the following error:
python make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
I tried reinstalling the previous version of python:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall python2.7-dev
The installation proceeded normally. However, now, when trying to import hashlib I get the following errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./server.py", line 5, in <module>
import hashlib
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 138, in <module>
_hashlib.openssl_md_meth_names)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'openssl_md_meth_names'
I am also unable to install any packages using pip as the only output provided is the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
I installed python-setuptools:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
pip still provides the same output regardless of the input. Following this question I ran:
curl -O https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
chmod +x ez_setup.py
python ez_setup.py
The output is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ez_setup.py", line 19, in <module>
import tempfile
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 35, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 49, in <module>
import hashlib as _hashlib
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 138, in <module>
_hashlib.openssl_md_meth_names)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'openssl_md_meth_names'
Where is the issue?
Edit #1:
The output of sudo apt-get install --reinstall python2.7-dev seems normal:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libjs-sphinxdoc linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 310 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/269 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 219657 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python2.7-dev_2.7.6-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python2.7-dev (2.7.6-8) over (2.7.6-8) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Setting up python2.7-dev (2.7.6-8) ...
Edit #2:
I have found this question which tackles a similar issue. It points to this thread which uses a checkinstall in order to retrieve all written files and creating a .deb package from them:
sudo apt-get install checkinstall # install the checkinstall package
cd /home/user/Python-2.7.9
sudo checkinstall -D --fstrans=no make install # make the deb package
Upon running the last command the output provided is identical with the one given by make install:
...
Listing /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers/__init__.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/parsers/expat.py ...
Listing /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/__init__.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/_exceptions.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/expatreader.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/handler.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/saxutils.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/xmlreader.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xmllib.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py ...
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
Edit #3:
It appears that all scripts are unable to run. I am working on signing algorithms(used in bitcoin) and the tools mentioned here(bu, tx) are all outputting the same error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/bu", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
Edit #4:
I have also tried the approach mentioned here. The output of python get-pip.py is the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "get-pip.py", line 28, in <module>
import tempfile
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 35, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 49, in <module>
import hashlib as _hashlib
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 138, in <module>
_hashlib.openssl_md_meth_names)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'openssl_md_meth_names'
If I comment the line:
import tempfile
then execution continues up to line 141:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "get-pip.py", line 19892, in <module>
main()
File "get-pip.py", line 141, in main
tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
NameError: global name 'tempfile' is not defined
meaning that the import of the following libraries:
import os.path
import pkgutil
import shutil
import sys
import struct
# import tempfile
succeeds. This makes me believe that the installation of python2.7.9 is only partially complete(as wisely suggested in the comments to this question).
Edit #5:
I have reran the configuration and compilation steps:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-shared \
--with-system-expat \
--with-system-ffi \
--enable-unicode=ucs4 &&
make
The builds terminates with:
Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
bsddb185 dl imageop
sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
running build_scripts
Are these modules essential?
