Elastalert: Can't install elastalert on elasticsearch6.1.1 by "python-dateutil 2.7.0"

[vincentwang0736]

My enviroment:
os:ubuntu 16.04
python:2.7.12
elasticsearch:6.1.1

I want to install elasalert0.1.29 by "python setup.py install",but I got this wrong:
error: python-dateutil 2.7.0 is installed but python-dateutil<2.7.0,>=2.1 is required by set(['botocore'])

Anyone can give me some advise?thanks a lot!

[Quentin-Be]

Hi, i had the same issue yesterday with CentOS and Kibana 6.2.

After sometime i resolved the problem simply by uninstalling python-dateutil 2.7 and installing python-dateutil 2.6.1

• pip uninstall python-dateutil
  -wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/54/bb/f1db86504f7a49e1d9b9301531181b00a1c7325dc85a29160ee3eaa73a54/python-dateutil-2.6.1.tar.gz#md5=db38f6b4511cefd76014745bb0cc45a4
  -tar -xvf python-dateutil-2.6.1.tar.gz
  -cd python-dateutil-2.6.1
  -python setup.py install

Hope it helps

[vincentwang0736]

Thank you for your so detailed reply！
unfortunately，I follow your reply sep by step but I sill get that issue.
I'm confused why that date-util version is still 2.7.0.Do you know how to view the version?
And is that related with elk version?

[vincentwang0736]

thanks a lot. I solve this problem by modifying the file "setup.py"

[Quentin-Be]

Np, happy that it worked out at the end

[multani]

This bug is a duplicate of #1602

[NaGa-s-Tear]

i have met the same problem with you.
so how did you modify the setup.py to solve this problem at last?@vincentwang0736

[multani]

This is the relevant change in botocore: https://github.com/boto/botocore/pull/1402

[kvjae]

Deleting the dateutils related files in Lib/site-packages and installing the 2.6.1 version of dateutils did the trick for me. Hope it would work for you @NaGa-s-Tear