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error: error in 'egg_base' option: 'src' does not exist or is not a directory

I'm trying to install Python packaging tools in Pycharm CE Ubuntu 18.04 and this error occurs.

Excuted command: /tmp/tmpl3kyfibgpycharm-management/pip-10.0.1/setup.py install

Error ocurred: error: error in 'egg_base' option: 'src' does not exist or is not a directory

Command output:

running install
running bdist_egg
error: error in 'egg_base' option: 'src' does not exist or is not a directory

I also tried pip install srcand this does not work either.

Solution

  • For python 3 you must install it using

    sudo apt-get install python3-pip

    it will work for python 2.7

    sudo apt-get install python-pip