How to install python-setuptools properly on Ubuntu 14.04

ivan@MS-7640:~$ python -V
Python 2.7.10

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
[sudo] password for ivan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-setuptools is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

but I get this error message :

Checking python module: setuptools ... setuptools is not installed, Please install it first.
On Debian/Ubntu: apt-get install python-setuptools
On CentOS/RHEL: yum install python-distribute
Error occured during setup.
Please fix possible problems and run the script again.

How to fix it?

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1 Answer

Run this command:

sudo pip install -U setuptools

This command install the required dependence.

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