Re: [Python-modules-team] My Pip installation is broken after upgrading Debian from oldstable/Wheezy to stable/Jessie...

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

Ant Dude <ant@zimage.com> writes:

>> In short, it isn't recommended practise to use pip install with Debian,
>> except for inside a virtualenv (or similar), as the packages can
>> conflict with Debian packages - especially after a upgrade.
>
> Interesting. I did find a fix and it seems like others had the same 
> problem. FFrom Debian's forum, it said 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744145#31 -- rm -rf 
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests* I renamed request 
> directory and now can run Debian's pip command. Sheesh. I also notice it 
> is an old bug that is still not fixed. :(

Are you sure? This bug was supposedly fixed in the Jessie version...
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>