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I have a Continuous Integration that works with Gitlab. When I deploy, it installs everything in my requirements.txt file with pip. However, when it gets to installing a package named cffi, it throws the error:

Downloading/unpacking cffi==1.10.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 11)) Cleaning up...

setuptools must be installed to install from a source distribution

I am lost here. Tried adding "setuptools" to requirements.txt and adding a line that explicitly installs it, but it doesn't work.

gitlab.ci looks like this:

script: - "cp tests/test_settings.py app/local_settings.py" - "source /home/ci/misuper-venv/bin/activate" - pip install setuptools - "pip install -r requirements.txt" - "python manage.py migrate --noinput"

I'm completely lost here. Please help.

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It's a known problem.

pip install -U setuptools pip install -U pip

Just helped me.

Note: a reasonable person would never sudo pip install anything. OS's Python should be managed by the OS's package manager; strong-arming your system Python installation has been many times seen to break your OS in interesting ways.

To pip install anything, use virtualenv or an equivalent.

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using sudo on the both the above commands solved my issues thank you
@jamesc: Good! But next time consider using a virtualenv. System Python packages are best handled by your package manager.
Thank you! I had this issue when trying to install Pillow. After running the above it installed with no problems.

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