Error of Python virtualenv
$ /usr/local/python-2.7/bin/virtualenv xp_mypy-2.7
New python executable in /scratch/xp_mypy-2.7/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in /scratch/xp_mypy-2.7/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
Complete output from command /scratch/xp_mypy-2.7/bin/python2.7 - setuptools p ip wheel:
Collecting setuptools
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/commands/install.py", line 324, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/req/req_set.py", line 554, in _prepare_file
require_hashes
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/req/req_install.py", line 278, in populate_link
self.link = finder.find_requirement(self, upgrade)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/index.py", line 465, in find_requirement
all_candidates = self.find_all_candidates(req.name)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/index.py", line 423, in find_all_candidates
for page in self._get_pages(url_locations, project_name):
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/index.py", line 568, in _get_pages
page = self._get_page(location)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/index.py", line 683, in _get_page
return HTMLPage.get_page(link, session=self.session)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/index.py", line 792, in get_page
"Cache-Control": "max-age=600",
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 488, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/download.py", line 386, in request
return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 475, in requ est
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 596, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/adapter.py", line 37, in se nd
cached_response = self.controller.cached_request(request)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/controller.py", line 111, i n cached_request
resp = self.serializer.loads(request, cache_data)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py", line 114, in loads
return getattr(self, "_loads_v{0}".format(ver))(request, data)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py", line 182, in _loads_v2
cached["response"]["body"]
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv_support/pip -9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py", line 26, in _b64_decode_bytes
return base64.b64decode(b.encode("ascii"))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-39906: o rdinal not in range(128)
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/bin/virtualenv", line 3, in <module>
virtualenv.main()
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 7 13, in main
symlink=options.symlink)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 9 45, in create_environment
download=download,
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 9 01, in install_wheel
call_subprocess(cmd, show_stdout=False, extra_env=env, stdin=SCRIPT)
File "/usr/local/python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 7 97, in call_subprocess
% (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /scratch/xp_mypy-2.7/bin/python2.7 - setuptools pip wheel faile d with error code 2
Solution
# let's assume your python installation is in this variable
my_python_path=/home/leo/tmp/test/
rm -Rf $HOME/.cache/pip
# not sure of the deletion of this one, but did it to be sure
rm -Rf $HOME/.pip
# remove of the pip and virtualenv
rm $my_python_path/bin/pip
rm $my_python_path/bin/virtualenv
# reinstall pip
$my_python_path/bin/python -m ensure pip
$my_python_path/bin/pip install virtualenv
$my_python_path/bin/virtualenv myenv
