easy_install: command not found

Question

I am trying to install MYCROFT on Ubuntu 18.04 following this: LINK

cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core.git
cd mycroft-core
bash dev_setup.sh

I am getting this error:

sudo: easy_install: command not found

This error is because the script dev_setup.sh line 168 is trying to execute:

easy_install pip==9.0.1 # force version of pip

I have installed:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential

However the

easy_install

command is still not recognised. Any ideas?

Update:

By commenting out that line in the script allows the script to run. However there is a module error, voice recognition module missing, when doing an audio test.

I can't reproduce your errors on clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (both with --depth=1 and without). Do you have python-related PPAs? — N0rbert, May 25 '18 at 21:06
easy_install is part of python-setuptools. Please add the output of apt policy python-setuptools to your question. — Chai T. Rex, May 25 '18 at 21:20

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '18 at 13:33

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On Ubuntu 18.04 I was able to pip install python-setuptools and run easy_install by full-path'ing it:

python /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/easy_install.py pip

I prefer this over installing the python-pip system package because pip is moving faster than the distros update it, so I install it from PyPI.

HTH!

answered Aug 20 '18 at 13:33

berto

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Thank you for this answer! I was frustrating myself because I was using find / -xdev -name easy_install so I wasn't finding easy_install.py (because of the .py extension). You probably just saved me from trying some ridiculously desperate solution. – chris Nov 27 '18 at 20:55
You're welcome! A trick I keep in my back pocket when find doesn't return anything is falling back to a more fuzzy search like: find / -iname '*easy_install*'. This will return files containing case-insensitive easy_install anywhere in the name; even if it's prefixed or suffixed with something. – berto Nov 29 '18 at 15:42
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An easier version than this is to run python -m easy_install pip – taxilian Feb 03 '20 at 18:52

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 12:06

According to the changelog easy_install was removed from the python-setuptools package.

I've got no good news for you; I've not found a solution short of updating the legacy scripts to use pip (and hoping the version pip installs works).

In your case its pip you're trying to get from easy_install, so you can probably omit the line since the version of pip in bionic is 9.0.1-2. A better change to the script might check that pip --version is less than 9.0.1 before trying to install that alternate version via easy_install.

lol to anyone struggling to load a 3rd party library that provides .egg files! And provides .whl files that are "incompatible with your system"! — cppProgrammer, Sep 25 '23 at 04:58

CottonTheButton · Answer 3 · 2018-05-25T20:34:45.840

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I got this from this link: I am not able to install easy_install in my ubuntu.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

If that doesn't work, try this:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo pip install <pypi-package>

Credits to: https://askubuntu.com/users/157039/m-tarun and https://askubuntu.com/users/20837/timo

edited May 25 '18 at 20:34

answered May 25 '18 at 20:28

CottonTheButton

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This is an absolute no-go. https://askubuntu.com/a/802594/868497 – zabop Dec 08 '21 at 10:15

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 18 '19 at 09:38

On Ubuntu 18.04, I got the same error several times, I searched on many links but didn't get a useful solution.

For this, the version of the pip should be less than or the same as 9.0.1.

First of all, install the pip for python version 3 from-

sudo apt install python3-pip

and check pip version-

pip --version

after that, we have to install build-essential for python-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev

and python setup-tools

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

And finally, we are able to install pymongo by following command-

python -m pip install pymongo

It worked for me, may it will work for you too.

This worked for me, but I used sudo apt install python-pip instead of installing python 3 — Lamya Elmorsy, Apr 25 '20 at 12:25

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 16:13

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easy_install is not a part of python setup-tools so instead you can go for pip3 for installing python modules if pip is not found the following should solve your issue.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

answered Sep 04 '20 at 16:13

Ragavendiran Balasubramanian

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Kayemba Luwaga · Answer 6 · 2024-02-04T05:16:03.543

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This worked on my side, all others mentioned here failed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pip
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev build-essential

edited Feb 04 '24 at 05:16

answered Feb 04 '24 at 05:14

Kayemba Luwaga

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This answer nearly replicates the approach mentioned in the question. So no real improvement. – zx485 Feb 05 '24 at 02:13
Cannot you see the difference? What do you mean by "nearly" replicates? Elaborate – Kayemba Luwaga Feb 05 '24 at 15:12
In the above answer given 5 years ago the same packages were suggested to install. Hence no improvement. Most of these packages were even mentioned in the question as well. – zx485 Feb 05 '24 at 17:20
You still cannot see the difference, I have no energy wasting explain anything; Just Chill – Kayemba Luwaga Feb 06 '24 at 15:06

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