On Feb 25, 2015, at 06:34 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >No. The bug talks about --system use of pip. The Debian bug doesn't mention `--system` and the use of sudo is incidental. It's completely reproducible with --user: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1363642/comments/3 Cheers, -Barry