I am trying to setup pip for linux . I have python 12.7.12 on the system , pip is installed on the system
~/Desktop # sudo easy_install pip install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ Searching for pip Best match: pip 9.0.1 Processing pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg pip 9.0.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin Installing pip2.7 script to /usr/local/bin Installing pip2 script to /usr/local/bin from here it looks pip is installed properly , but when i am trying to use pip then it throws error .
pip -V Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('pip==9.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pip')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 305, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2244, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 28, in <module> from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar # noqa File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in <module> from pip.download import path_to_url File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 36, in <module> from pip.utils.glibc import libc_ver File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-9.0.1-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/glibc.py", line 4, in <module> import ctypes File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module> from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array ****ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ctypes.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode**** 
