Why can I not install pyenv?

Problem:

I am using python 2.7 on my Windows 10 computer.

When I run

pip install pyenv 

I get the error shown below.

This is the only pip module that I have run into that I cannot install successfully. I'm not sure why this happens. Any ideas?

Error Message:

pip install pyenv Collecting pyenv Downloading pyenv-20150113.1.tar.gz Building wheels for collected packages: pyenv Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyenv: started Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyenv: finished with status 'error' Complete output from command c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\u sers\\user\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-_6j2tq\\pyenv\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open )(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_w heel -d c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\tmprb9n7epip-wheel- --python-tag cp27: running bdist_wheel running build installing to build\bdist.win32\wheel running install Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv'... Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-doctor'... Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-installer'... Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-pip-rehash'... Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-update'... Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenv'... Cloning into 'C:/Users/user/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-which-ext'... WARNING: seems you still have not added 'pyenv' to the load path. # Load pyenv automatically by adding # the following to your profile: export PATH="$HOME/.pyenv/bin:$PATH" eval "$(pyenv init -)" eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_6j2tq\pyenv\setup.py", line 33, in <module> cmdclass=dict(install=PyenvInstall), File "c:\python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\wheel\bdist_wheel.py", line 257, in run self.distinfo_dir) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\wheel\bdist_wheel.py", line 393, in egg2dist raise ValueError(err) ValueError: Egg metadata expected at build\bdist.win32\wheel\.\pyenv-20150113.1-py2.7.egg-info but not found ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for pyenv Running setup.py clean for pyenv Failed to build pyenv Installing collected packages: pyenv Running setup.py install for pyenv: started Running setup.py install for pyenv: finished with status 'error' Complete output from command c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\ \users\\user\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-_6j2tq\\pyenv\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', op en)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" insta ll --record c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-wjwco5-record\install-record.txt --single-version-ex ternally-managed --compile: usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: -c --help-commands or: -c cmd --help error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized ---------------------------------------- Command "c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\user\\appdata \\local\\temp\\pip-build-_6j2tq\\pyenv\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.rea d().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\mse dmon\appdata\local\temp\pip-wjwco5-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compi le" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-_6j2tq\pyenv\