ImportError: No module named packaging.version

Question

When I tried installing Flask I got this error:

ImportError: No module named packaging.version

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 23:09

15

To fix this, I had to do:

pip install setuptools

answered Feb 16 '17 at 23:09

Prashanth

Thanks man. That worked like a charm, after wasting about an hour Googling for the error. :) – sandiprb Mar 13 '17 at 16:41

score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 20 '17 at 03:51

13

If your Python runs on Ubuntu, try to do this:

cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
mv pkg_resources/ pkg_resources_bak/

I'm not sure what package installed the "pkg_resources", it will make pip always show error.

edited Feb 20 '17 at 03:51

Pang

answered Feb 20 '17 at 03:48

José T. Lin

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 16:41

7

Try this

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

answered Mar 03 '17 at 16:41

algometrix

1

I was having the above-mentioned error on my raspberry pi model B. If anyone else comes here with my problem, this answer fixed it for me. – Arjun Mar 09 '17 at 02:46
I encountered this error on macOS after upgrading to High Sierra and re-installing MacPorts. Nothing worked until I tried this. – John Laudun Feb 23 '18 at 00:27

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 17 '17 at 20:43

As an Ubuntu 14.04 user, upgrading pip to version 9.0.1 fixed this problem for me.

Upgrading pip normally

Download get-pip.py script, along with pip, wheel, and setuptools from pypi
Place all files in the /tmp directory
Run the following command to install pip: sudo -H python /tmp/get-pip.py --no-index --find-links=/tmp pip