pip does not work anymore

[Cecil Westerhof]

On Monday 23 Nov 2015 09:11 CET, Laura Creighton wrote:

> In a message of Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:48:54 +0100, Cecil Westerhof
> writes:
>> When I try to install something with pip2 I get: Traceback (most
>> recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip2", line 9, in <module>
>> load_entry_point('pip==7.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'pip2')() File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
>> 558, in load_entry_point return
>> get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
>> 2682, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
>> 2355, in load return self.resolve() File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
>> 2361, in resolve module = __import__(self.module_name,
>> fromlist=['__name__'], level=0) File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 15, in
>> <module> from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar #
>> noqa File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/vcs/subversion.py",
>> line 9, in <module> from pip.index import Link File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 30, in
>> <module> from pip.wheel import Wheel, wheel_ext File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 35, in
>> <module> from pip._vendor.distlib.scripts import ScriptMaker File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py",
>> line 14, in <module> from .compat import sysconfig,
>> detect_encoding, ZipFile File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py",
>> line 31, in <module> from urllib2 import (Request, urlopen,
>> URLError, HTTPError, ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler
>>
>> With pip3 I get the same problem.
>>
>> It looks like openSUSE has done an upgrade in which it disabled
>> ssl2. How can I get pip2/3 working again?
>>
>
> Reading
> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/488962-OpenSuse-python-amp-openssl
> seems to indicatew that you are supposed to use python-pip and not
> pip for OpenSuse, but I don't have one, so that is just my
> interpretation.

python-pip is the package that you need to install to use pip2. I
removed it and then pip2 does not exist anymore. I reinstalled it, but
keep getting the same error. It looks like I need to install:
    https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html?highlight=urllib2#urllib2.HTTPSHandler
but I need pip2 to do that. So I need a working pip2 to get it
working. :'-(


By the way openSUSE did a big update and broke other things also. For
example virtualbox. Probably time to really leave openSUSE for Debian.
But that will not be painless.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof