$ virtualenv virtenv Overwriting virtenv/lib/python2.7/site.py with new content New python executable in virtenv/bin/python Overwriting virtenv/lib/python2.7/distutils/__init__.py with new content Installing setuptools, pip... Complete output from command /virtenv/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip: Exception in thread Thread-2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 245, in _get_queued_page page = self._get_page(location, req) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 335, in _get_page return HTMLPage.get_page(link, req, cache=self.cache) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 452, in get_page resp = urlopen(url) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 85, in __call__ response = urllib2.urlopen(self.get_request(url)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 396, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 258, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 245, in _get_queued_page page = self._get_page(location, req) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 335, in _get_page return HTMLPage.get_page(link, req, cache=self.cache) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 452, in get_page resp = urlopen(url) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 85, in __call__ response = urllib2.urlopen(self.get_request(url)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 396, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 258, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: /usr/share/python-virtualenv/ Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 245, in _get_queued_page page = self._get_page(location, req) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 335, in _get_page return HTMLPage.get_page(link, req, cache=self.cache) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 452, in get_page resp = urlopen(url) File "/virtenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 85, in __call__ response = urllib2.urlopen(self.get_request(url)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 396, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 258, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: . Ignoring indexes: http://pypi.python.org/simple/ Downloading/unpacking distribute Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement distribute No distributions at all found for distribute Storing complete log in /home/collin/.pip/pip.log ---------------------------------------- ...Installing setuptools, pip...done. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virtualenv", line 3, in <module> virtualenv.main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 825, in main symlink=options.symlink) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 993, in create_environment install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 961, in install_wheel 'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1' File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 903, in call_subprocess % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode)) OSError: Command /virtenv/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip failed with error code 1 
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The version of pip in the existing virtualenv is outdated (version 1.1). upgrade it first:
./virtenv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip or just delete it:
rm ./virtenv/bin/pip* rm -r ./virtenv/lib/python*/site-packages/pip* 3 Comments
augurar
Can you explain a bit more what is going on and how that problem relates to what is printed to the terminal?
Collin Anderson
I actually have no idea. I just know that this fixed it for me. :) I think this happened when I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. Normally I would recreate a virtualenv directly on top of an existing virtualenv so it would get the new python version. In this case though that doesn't work and I needed to delete pip first.
Kevin
inside the virtualenv, it tries to use its copy first. If you remove it, it will use the host system's copy instead, which works properly.
This seems to work for me:
virtualenv <venv> --no-{pip,wheel,setuptools} <venv>/bin/pip install -U pip wheel setuptools Recreating the venv first is necessary because I upgraded my system python from 2.7.3 (debian wheezy) to 2.7.9 (debian jessie), which broke the venv.
