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python-setuptools: import setuptools returns ValueError: ("Missing 'Version:' ...)

Bug #490731 reported by Integer on 2009-12-01

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	python-setuptools	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	distribute (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I upgraded my distribution and i got an error when trying to use setuptools:

There is the description of error below:
ValueError: ("Missing 'Version:' header and/or PKG-INFO file", setuptools [unknown version] (/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages))

Possible solution:

I solved this error by myself with these conditions / steps:

* wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup_dev.py
* sudo python distribute_setup_dev.py

and it works now.. Please fix this error on ubuntu packages..

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 1 10:31:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python-setuptools 0.6.8-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-5.6-generic
SourcePackage: distribute
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-5-generic x86_64

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/distribute

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Integer (gurkanaslan) wrote on 2009-12-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (929 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote on 2009-12-02:

It already fails on importing pkg_resources:

>>> import pkg_resources
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2656, in <module>
    add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 647, in subscribe
    callback(dist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2656, in <lambda>
    add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2162, in activate
    self.insert_on(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2256, in insert_on
    if '0.7' in self.version:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2120, in version
    "Missing 'Version:' header and/or PKG-INFO file", self
ValueError: ("Missing 'Version:' header and/or PKG-INFO file", setuptools [unknown version] (/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages))

ii python-pkg-resources 0.6.8-1ubuntu1 Package Discovery and Resource Access using

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote on 2009-12-05:

This seems to be an upgrade issue of "python-setuptools" from 0.6c9-0ubuntu5 to 0.6.8-1ubuntu1.
A fresh install of python-setuptools doesn't show this problem.

So a workaround is to remove python-setuptools and install it again.

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote on 2009-12-05:

Upon further inspection the problem seems to be:

With python-setuptools 0.6c9-0ubuntu5 /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info/ is a directory and contains symlinks to the shared files.
With python-setuptools 0.6.8-1ubuntu1 /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools.egg-info/ is a symlink to a file.

But the upgrade leaves only a empty directory causing the problem.

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote on 2009-12-05:

distribute.debdiff Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain)

distribute (0.6.8-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

* python-setuptools.preinst (lp: #490731):
Remove old .egg-info directories so we can transition to symlinks.

-- Michael Bienia <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:20:47 +0100

Successfully tested with upgrade paths:
- 0.6c9-0ubuntu5 → 0.6.8-1ubuntu2
- 0.6c9-0ubuntu5 → 0.6.8-1ubuntu1 → 0.6.8-1ubuntu2

Tested with: python-setuptools is installed and 'python -c "import pkg_resources"' succeeds.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2009-12-05:

Ack. Looks good to me.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-12-07:

This bug was fixed in the package distribute - 0.6.8-1ubuntu2

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distribute (0.6.8-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

* python-setuptools.preinst (lp: #490731):
Remove old .egg-info directories so we can transition to symlinks.
-- Michael Bienia <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:20:47 +0100