jupyter: Installation problem: No local packages found for "entrypoints"

I am trying to install Jupyter on CentOS 6.7, python3.4 and getting this error. Where can one get this entrypoints package? Can find none on google.

Processing dependencies for jupyter==1.0.0
Searching for entrypoints
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/entrypoints/
No local packages or download links found for entrypoints
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('entrypoints')

Same error with easy_install3 jupyter or easy_install3 -U git://github.com/jupyter/jupyter

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Created 8 years ago
Comments: 16 (12 by maintainers)

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To add to the discussion, the problem is not due to an older version of pip; I got today the very same error message with version 8.1.2.

In case somebody else find this through Google, the solution appears to install the ‘entrypoints’ package prior to jupyter:

$ pip install entrypoints
$ pip install jupyter

ajmazurie on Jun 23, 2016

Closing as @DSLituiev found a way to get pip working (from discussion on SO).

takluyver on May 14, 2016

Easy install will not work. That tool really needs to die. Try using pip to install just entrypoints, with a -t flag to specify the target directory, and then, if you must, use easy_install to install the other stuff. On 6 May 2016 2:08 a.m., “Carol Willing” notifications@github.com wrote:

@DSLituiev https://github.com/DSLituiev Perhaps using easy_install and the entrypoints source would work in your scenario. After downloading the entrypoints source as a zip file (button on right hand side), repo url https://github.com/takluyver/entrypoints:

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Following example 6 in the easy_install docs here http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html#downloading-and-installing-a-package. Do the following:

extract the contents of the zip file

At the root of the extracted contents directory, enter easy_install .

Hope this helps.

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takluyver on May 6, 2016