pip upgrade fails - says "owned by OS"

[prescripio]

pip install --upgrade six
Downloading/unpacking six from https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.3/s/six/six-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=9ac7e129a80f72d6fc1f0216f6e9627b
  Downloading six-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: six
  Found existing installation: six 1.5.2
    Not uninstalling six at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
Successfully installed six
Cleaning up...

===========================================
pip 1.5.4 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)
===========================================
cat lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS"

[agronholm]

You were root when doing this right? Did you have six installed from your repository's package manager?

[dstufft]

Why are you saying this failed? It should have successfully installed six into /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/. It just skipped uninstall the version of six that was installed by the OS.

[mtthss]

I have the same problem,

$ sudo pip install --upgrade six

Downloading/unpacking six from https://pypi.python.org/packages/3.3/s/six/six-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=9ac7e129a80f72d6fc1f0216f6e9627b
Downloading six-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: six
Found existing installation: six 1.5.2
Not uninstalling six at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
Successfully installed six
Cleaning up...

After this I still have the version six 1.5.2 installed while I need version 1.9.0
I also tried uninstalling six ($ sudo pip uninstall six)
but it always tells me " not uninstalling six, owned by OS"

[xavfernandez]

What is the result of running python -c "from pkg_resources import Environment;print(Environment()['six'])" ?

[piotrmierzwa]

I have same problem as temp solution remove six by hand rm /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_six_
see https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock/issues/298

[rbtcollins]

Possibly a badly ordered Python path ?

[ducovrossem]

Same problem here. @xavfernandez result is:

[six 1.9.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), six 1.5.2 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)]

[dstufft]

Owned by the OS is a Debian patch. I suggest filing a bug there and reinstalling pip using get-pip.py.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 25, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Duco [email protected] wrote:

Same problem here. @xavfernandez result is:

[six 1.9.0 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), six 1.5.2 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages)]

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[dstufft]

Going to close this since it's Debian's patch that is causing this.

[antran89]

@prescripio I also met this problem. Then I removed pip using

sudo pip uninstall pip

Then I installed the newest version 7.1.2. Everything seems to be fine now.

[ashim888]

better do sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/six-1.5.2.egg-info

[xuezhisd]

• 下载six源码
  
  
  
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six or http://pypi.douban.com/simple/six
  
  
• 解压tar -zxvf six**
• 切换six**路径，并执行sudo python setup.py install

• 如果还不行，在/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/下，新建mypack.pth文件，输入以下内容

  # 文件内容
  /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
  

  • 新建这个文件的作用是，Python的搜索路径先搜搜/usr/local/lib/，后搜搜/usr/lib

[sahilshekhawat]

TLDR;

• You can remove previous installation via $ sudo apt-get remove python-pip or,
• You can simply force the installation via pip install --ignore-installed six

I don't think this is a bug.This might clear the confusion: http://askubuntu.com/questions/644911/unable-to-upgrade-pip.

Theapt system and PyPI uses two different mechanisms.

This is due to the fact that six was installed via apt rather than pip.

[taverentech]

Actually, the problem is that pip by OS/system means root. Not sudo cmd or sudo -s
Try doing sudo -i,
then as root, in root's ENV, do the: pip install pip --upgrade
and it will work just fine.

Its always BEST to sudo -i before install pip applications if you are intending them to be system wide.

[mverma-va]

This should fix the problem, as it fixed mine on Ubuntu 14.x
install pip (even if it is already installed), securely download get-pip.py from here https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
Then run the following:
sudo python get-pip.py

[Egor3f]

$ sudo apt-get remove python-pip
Completely solves problem for me.

[jack17529]

I made a permanent solution check this out -

Uninstall pip if any - use

sudo pip uninstall pip

Go to this link - https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-install-pip-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts/

For me it installed in

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant$ which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip

So there is a mistake in the post as the command pip --help

will not work.

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant$ pip --help
-bash: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory

But you still have pip installed.

Enjoy!

[jack17529]

Should I submit a patch?

[a05110511t]

Try this:
sudo easy_install -U pip

[lock[bot]]

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.