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Asked: 2020-06-02 21:09:28 +0800 CST

PIP3 import error cannot import name 'load_entry_point' from 'pkg_resources' (unknown location)

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I have installed pip3 using below commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository universe
$ sudo apt install python3-pip

The commands run perfectly well with no error. However when i do below to check pip version:

$ pip3 -v

It gives error import error: cannot import name 'load_entry_point' from 'pkg_resources'

System: Virtual box version 6.1.2, OS: Ubuntu version 20.04, Python version 3.8.2

So I suspect pip3 is may be not properly installed...How to install it if not installed? enter image description here

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virtualbox pip 20.04

1 Answers

  1. There was nothing wrong with steps. But if we are getting error like above, then we need to be able to resolve that error. I just rebooted my system, restarted everything. Sometimes its the problem with servers.

    sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

    and finally did 

    sudo apt-get install python3-pip

    And it worked

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