[IPython-dev] Can't install IPython 3.0, can't reinstall IPython 2.4

Thomas Kluyver takowl at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 13:24:39 EST 2015


On 28 February 2015 at 10:20, Conery John <conery at uoregon.edu> wrote:

> but the install fails with a message that says "AttributeError:
> _DistInfoDistribution__dep_map”.
>

Sounds like a bug in pip. Can you try upgrading pip itself? Or downgrading,
if you're already on the latest version.


> I tried to revert to the old version by downloading
> ipython-rel-2.4.1.tar.gz from GitHub
>

Github tarballs are incomplete - this is a known issue, but there's nothing
we can do about it. If you want to install from a tarball, grab it from
PyPI or archive.ipython.org.

Thomas
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