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W3Q
W3Q

Reputation: 909

pip install fails - ERROR: IPython requires Python version 2.7 or 3.3 or above

I installed pip today on centos 6.4 and I've tried installing python libraries via pip.

But, I got the following error.

ERROR: IPython requires Python version 2.7 or 3.3 or above.
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
ERROR: IPython requires Python version 2.7 or 3.3 or above.

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_username/ipython
Storing debug log for failure in /home/username/.pip/pip.log

Although the error message says I need Python version 2.7 or above, I have installed python 2.7 already.

$ which python
/usr/local/bin/python
$ python --version
Python 2.7.8

I'm not sure if it's causing this problem that I have python2.6 in "usr/bin/python".

$ sudo python --version
Python 2.6.6

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5343

Answers (2)

jeesty
jeesty

Reputation: 1204

Also, don't forget (and this might be obscure), that if you run "sudo pip install" you might get a DIFFERENT pip than if you are running non-sudo.

Upvotes: 0

BartoszKP
BartoszKP

Reputation: 35891

If you have two Pythons, you may have two pips as well. This most probably means that you are running pip from the Python 2.6 distribution. If you will run the Python 2.7 version it will most definitely use Python 2.7. If you have only Python 2.6 version, you have to install pip again, separately for the 2.7 version.

Command that worked, posted by OP in the comments section:

curl -kL raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python

Upvotes: 3

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