Not sure if this is exactly the same bug, but I'm seeing pip break itself. Packages are being installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist- packages/ and at some point it's installing the requests package. This breaks pip completely:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('pip==1.5.4', 'console_scripts', 'pip')() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 351, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2363, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2088, in load entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__']) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 11, in <module> from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar # noqa File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in <module> from pip.download import path_to_url File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 23, in <module> from requests.adapters import BaseAdapter ImportError: No module named adapters Moving /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages out of the way fixes the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308714 Title: sudo pip install installs into the system dist-packages by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1308714/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs