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Too many levels of symlinks?

I am attempting to re-install pip using easy_install.

When I run easy_install pip, I get the following error message:

easy_install pip
Searching for pip
Best match: pip 1.4.1
Adding pip 1.4.1 to easy-install.pth file
Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin
error: /usr/local/bin/pip: Too many levels of symbolic links

How can I remove the symlink? Alternatively/related - is pip installed already?

Solution

  • For some reason, /usr/local/bin/pip is a symlink pointing to itself, and easy_install is getting confused trying to write to it, instead of just deleting it first. You can do that yourself by running

    sudo rm /usr/local/bin/pip

    then rerunning the installation process.