PIP is now broken because I ran out of space

Question

I tried to run this command and got the following error:

$ pip install --upgrade pip

Collecting pip Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5f/25/e52d3f31441505a5f3af41213346e5b6c221c9e086a166f3703d2ddaf940/pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.3MB 1.1MB/s

Installing collected packages: pip

Found existing installation: pip 9.0.1

Uninstalling pip-9.0.1:

Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.1

Rolling back uninstall of pip

Exception: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 323, in clobber

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/shutil.py", line 115, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:

OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_internal/cache.py'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 790, in install

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 759, in rollback_uninstall

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 135, in rollback

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/utils/init.py", line 265, in renames

File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 241, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode)

OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/caches/pycache'

Now when i run: $ pip -h

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/bin/pip", line 7, in from pip import main File "/opt/virtualenvs/appname/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/init.py", line 21, in from pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import DependencyWarning ImportError: No module named 'pip._vendor.requests'

Will anyone help me figure this out? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Free up some space and try to reinstall pip

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ python3 get-pip.py