I have had only partial success with pip. Some things seem to install OK. But I've tried a couple of packages, specifically "BeautifulSoup" and "WxPython", and they fail with the same message, e.g.:
*Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ku98d6jd/BeautifulSoup/* I've gotten this error for most of the packages I have tried to install, but I don't know what causes the error. I have successfully installed some packages, such as html5lib, so my installation isn't totally messed up. I am using a Slackware Linux. I have gotten this error message both on a 64-bit installation and a 32-bit installation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
