ImportError: module 'setuptools.dist' has no 'check_specifier' attribute

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Ceph teuthology installation fails with following error on Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 4.4.0-51-generic:

ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.pyc'> has no 'check_specifier' attribute

score 55 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 31 '17 at 07:06

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It was due to older setuptools version. I updated setuptools as follows:

sudo pip install setuptools --upgrade

It installed setuptools-31.0.0 and that worked.

edited Aug 31 '17 at 07:06

fedorqui

answered Dec 14 '16 at 11:38

Vishal K

Thanks. It was also due to an old pip 1.5 on my side. Don't forget to `pip install -U pip` ! – Ehvince Jan 04 '18 at 15:03

Sami · Answer 2 · 2020-11-12T09:50:07.770

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For python 3 and later 3.x, use pip3

sudo pip3 install setuptools --upgrade

No need to use sudo for a virtual environment or in admin console of windows,so use simply

pip3 install setuptools --upgrade

edited Nov 12 '20 at 09:50

answered May 03 '18 at 11:29

Sami

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