Re: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

["Ferenczi Viktor - Pannon Set" <fviktor@ps.hu>]

Just uninstall the python-setuptools package:

apt-get --purge remove python-setuptools

Then download ez_setup.py from somewhere (google for it, you will find many 
locations, for example: http://www.turbogears.org/download/ez_setup.py ), 
then run it with your desired python version ( for example: python2.3 
ez_setup.py ).

It will install the latest version of setuptools and easy_install will work 
fine. There will be different versions of easy_install script for each 
installed version of python. For example: easy_install-2.4

Note that easy_install will install python packages in the non-apt way, but 
they should work fine this way too.

Viktor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
To: <backports-users@lists.backports.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:28 PM
Subject: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources


> I mistakely reported a problem to debian:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418046
>
> and was asked to forward it here.
>
>
> I was able to install python-setuptools, but I believe this is not
> possible on a debian stable system.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
> $ easy_install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 4, in ?
>    import pkg_resources
> ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
>
> I cannot find pkg_resources in stable. I can find it in unstable though:
> usr/share/pycentral/python-setuptools/site-packages/pkg_resources.py
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?version=unstable&arch=i386&case=insensitive&word=pkg_resources&searchmode=searchword
>
> IMHO python-setuptools should depend on a newer python version is my
> guess...
>
> Ref:
> $ python
> Python 2.3.5 (#2, Oct 16 2006, 19:19:48)
> [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
>
>
> Thanks !