setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1

[theobarnhart]

I'm working on installing setuptools on OS X 10.11.4, I have an Anaconda python install and pip installed virtualenv, but I keep getting this error when I try and install letsencrypt. I also tried updating setuptools using pip but that didn't help either. Any thoughts on how to fix this would be appreciated. Thanks!

ullr:letsencrypt barnhatb$ ./letsencrypt-auto certonly --debug
Bootstrapping dependencies via Mac OS X...
Using Homebrew to install dependencies...
Warning: augeas-1.4.0 already installed
Warning: dialog-1.3-20160209 already installed
Checking for new version...
Creating virtual environment...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/barnhatb/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 2316, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/barnhatb/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 708, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/Users/barnhatb/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 941, in create_environment
    download=download,
  File "/Users/barnhatb/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 897, in install_wheel
    call_subprocess(cmd, show_stdout=False, extra_env=env, stdin=SCRIPT)
  File "/Users/barnhatb/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 792, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /Users/barnhatb/.loc...ncrypt/bin/python2.7 - setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1

[bmw]

Looks like this might be an instance of pypa/virtualenv#741.

[theobarnhart]

That worked! Thank you.

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Looks like this might be an instance of pypa/virtualenv#741
pypa/virtualenv#741.

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#2850 (comment)

[swyxio]

sept 2016 checking in, still have to downgrade to 2.7.9 per @bmw 's link above

[mahinthjoe]

Oct 2016 checking in, downgrade to 2.7.9

[kabrink]

Feb 2017 checking in, downgrade to 2.7.9 (same link as above).

[tejuafonja]

Feb 2017, downgrade still works...wow!

[sitaramanp]

Mar 2017. We still have to downgrade to 2.7.9

[tejuafonja]

Lol ikr... I still downgraded yesterday after I mistakenly upgraded my heroku

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[shintojoseph1234]

This will work for virtualenv pip wheel errorcode1 problems and also E unable to locate package problems

apt-get update

apt-get install python-software-properties

apt-get install apt-file

apt-file update

apt-get install software-properties-common

apt-get install <your filename>  

[nilooravaei-zz]

Apr 2017. We still have to downgrade to 2.7.9

[raydai]

May 2017, We still have to downgrade to 2.7.9

[bmw]

We don't recommend you use certbot-auto on macOS. Support on that platform has always been experimental. If you don't include the --debug flag on the command line when you try to install Certbot using certbot-auto on that system, you get a message like:

FATAL: macOS support is very experimental at present...
if you would like to work on improving it, please ensure you have backups
and then run this script again with the --debug flag!
Alternatively, you can install OS dependencies yourself and run this script
again with --no-bootstrap.

Instead, we recommend you follow our macOS instructions found at https://certbot.eff.org/#osx-other. Our instructions recommend you use Homebrew, but if you prefer MacPorts, there is a port available.

[jwilber]

Running conda install -c anaconda virtualenv=15.1.0 worked for me.

(per RubenDuran's comment here: pypa/virtualenv#788 )

[fzhcary]

struggled for hours and finally find solution:
pip uninstall virtualenv
conda install virtualenv

virtualenv in pip doesn't work with conda.

[tatianafrank]

@fzhcary and @jwilber solutions above don't work for me and downgrading to python 2.7.9 doesnt work either, still getting same error 'setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1' on macOS

[abdulwahid24]

same here @tatianafrank , Let me know if you got any solution?

[abdulwahid24]

I got it resolve by python3 -m venv myenv

[whoget]

i got it resolve using:
pip install --upgrade virtualenv

[davidespinozao]

These two commands are the final solution for me:
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
sudo virtualenv .env

Thanks to all

[gowthambalusamy]

Finally I found the solutions

pip uninstall virtualenv
conda install virtualenv

[amorrissette]

Did not need to downgrade from python 2.7.11
Just made the mistake of installing virtualenv using pip instead of conda, so

pip uninstall virtualenv
conda install virtualenv

worked for me as well

[sblcook]

Like @amorrissette and others,

pip uninstall virtualenv
conda install virtualenv

fixed everything for me

[abdulwahid24]

Hey guys,

Check out this super cool and awesome tool pipenv. I guarantee you would fall in love with it.

Thanks

[abinjoabraham]

I was searching for a fix for hours finally below ones worked for me and I was using minconda versions of python.
pip uninstall virtualenv
conda install virtualenv

[ghost]

this worked
pip install --upgrade virtualenv