pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==0.8.2

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I had this issue where python's distribute package wasn't installed for some reason. After following the instructions on python-distribute, i got it working. install the distribute package as follows: $ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ python distribute_setup.py hopefully this will resolve your problem with running $ sudo easy_install Happy Coding! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2713, in <module> parse_requirements(__requires__), Environment() File "/usr/bin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.19-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pip==0.8.2 $ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ python distribute_setup.py You will have a working easy_install then.