Conda-build: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

[sebastian-luna-valero]

Dear all,

I get the error above when building ggplot with the recipe here:
https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/tree/master/ggplot

$ conda build ggplot
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/bin/conda-build", line 5, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda_build/main_build.py", line 110, in main
args_func(args, p)
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda_build/main_build.py", line 312, in args_func
args.func(args, p)
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda_build/main_build.py", line 244, in execute
m = MetaData(recipe_dir)
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda_build/metadata.py", line 246, in init
self.parse_again()
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda_build/metadata.py", line 254, in parse_again
self.meta = parse(get_contents(self.meta_path))
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda_build/metadata.py", line 221, in get_contents
loaders = [jinja2.PackageLoader('conda_build'),
File "/sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/loaders.py", line 212, in init
from pkg_resources import DefaultProvider, ResourceManager,
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

$ conda info
Current conda install:
platform : linux-64
conda version : 3.7.2
conda-build version : 1.9.0
python version : 2.7.8.final.0
requests version : 2.4.3
root environment : /sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1 (writable)
default environment : /sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1
envs directories : /sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/envs
package cache : /sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/pkgs
channel URLs : https://conda.binstar.org/cgat/linux-64/
http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/linux-64/
http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/linux-64/
config file : /ifs/home/sebastian/.condarc
is foreign system : False

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance!

[sebastian-luna-valero]

Dear all,

I have tried updating conda to version 3.7.3 but still have the same problem described above.

Thanks!

[sebastian-luna-valero]

Dear all,

I have found a solution thanks to this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7446187/no-module-named-pkg-resources

Just did:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | /sebastian/anaconda-test/test-cgat-1/bin/python

and it worked again!

Maybe I am missing something, or you may want to have a look at this problem anyway.

Thanks!

[asmeurer]

A simpler solution is conda install setuptools.

[sebastian-luna-valero]

Hi,

But as you can see here:
https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/ggplot/meta.yaml

setuptools is one of the build requirements. Is not that a solution?

Actually, I checked that setuptools was installed already with:
conda list | grep setuptools

Thanks anyway for your answer!

[asmeurer]

The issue is that setuptools was not installed into your root environment, where conda is. The build dependencies get installed into the build environment (_build), which is completely separate.

If you already had setuptools installed, then likely you needed to conda install -f setuptools.

[sebastian-luna-valero]

That's quite useful to know, many thanks!