Stuck on an issue?

I have a quick work around. The appdirs is a dependency of other third party apps in my project, but I have find out that if I execute the following command:

$ pip install appdirs --upgrade

just before my regular

$ pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade

It works like a charm. Maybe that will help someone.

P.S. I in the third party app the dependency to appdirs is defined as appdirs>=1.4.0

I am having this issue on 1.4.3 as well. The aforementioned work around doesn’t seem to work for me either.

Output:

~/p/site-authentication (master|✔) $ vf new -p (which python3) site-auth
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/local/bin/python3
Using base prefix '/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.0_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6'
New python executable in /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/bin/python3.6
Also creating executable in /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
(site-auth) ~/p/site-authentication (master|✔) $ pip3 install appdirs --upgrade
Requirement already up-to-date: appdirs in /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages
(site-auth) ~/p/site-authentication (master|✔) $ 
pip3 install -r requirements.txt --upgrade
Collecting appdirs==1.4.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Using cached appdirs-1.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting awscli==1.11.19 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
  Using cached awscli-1.11.19-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting bcrypt==3.1.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
Collecting blinker==1.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))
Collecting boto3==1.4.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5))
  Using cached boto3-1.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting botocore==1.4.76 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
  Using cached botocore-1.4.76-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting cffi==1.9.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 7))
  Using cached cffi-1.9.1-cp36-cp36m-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
Collecting click==6.7 (from -r requirements.txt (line 8))
  Using cached click-6.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting colorama==0.3.7 (from -r requirements.txt (line 9))
  Using cached colorama-0.3.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting coverage==4.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 10))
Collecting cryptography==1.7.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 11))
  Using cached cryptography-1.7.1-cp36-cp36m-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl
Collecting datadog==0.14.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 12))
Collecting decorator==4.0.10 (from -r requirements.txt (line 13))
  Using cached decorator-4.0.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting docutils==0.12 (from -r requirements.txt (line 14))
  Using cached docutils-0.12-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting driftwood==1.1.21 (from -r requirements.txt (line 15))
Collecting flake8==3.2.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 16))
  Using cached flake8-3.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting Flask==0.12 (from -r requirements.txt (line 17))
  Using cached Flask-0.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Obtaining Flask_Inputs from git+https://github.com/waltsu/flask-inputs.git@295fab3a887deebedbe154652c0a4382bf08eff0#egg=Flask_Inputs (from -r requirements.txt (line 18))
  Cloning https://github.com/waltsu/flask-inputs.git (to 295fab3a887deebedbe154652c0a4382bf08eff0) to /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/src/flask-inputs
  Could not find a tag or branch '295fab3a887deebedbe154652c0a4382bf08eff0', assuming commit.
Collecting Flask-Limiter==0.9.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 19))
Collecting future==0.16.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 20))
Collecting gunicorn==19.6.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 21))
  Using cached gunicorn-19.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting httplib2==0.9.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 22))
Collecting idna==2.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 23))
  Using cached idna-2.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting itsdangerous==0.24 (from -r requirements.txt (line 24))
Collecting Jinja2==2.9.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 25))
  Using cached Jinja2-2.9.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting jmespath==0.9.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 26))
  Using cached jmespath-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting libnacl==1.4.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 27))
Collecting limits==1.2.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 28))
Collecting MarkupSafe==0.23 (from -r requirements.txt (line 29))
Collecting mccabe==0.5.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 30))
  Using cached mccabe-0.5.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting mock==2.0.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 31))
  Using cached mock-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting mockredispy==2.9.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 32))
Collecting mongoengine==0.10.6 (from -r requirements.txt (line 33))
Collecting mongomock==3.7.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 34))
  Using cached mongomock-3.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting newrelic==2.74.0.54 (from -r requirements.txt (line 35))
Collecting oauth2client==4.0.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 36))
  Using cached oauth2client-4.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already up-to-date: packaging==16.8 in /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 37))
Collecting pbr==1.10.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 38))
  Using cached pbr-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting phonenumbers==8.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 39))
  Using cached phonenumbers-8.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting py==1.4.31 (from -r requirements.txt (line 40))
  Using cached py-1.4.31-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pyasn1==0.1.9 (from -r requirements.txt (line 41))
  Using cached pyasn1-0.1.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pyasn1-modules==0.0.8 (from -r requirements.txt (line 42))
  Using cached pyasn1_modules-0.0.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pycodestyle==2.2.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 43))
  Using cached pycodestyle-2.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pycountry==1.20 (from -r requirements.txt (line 44))
Collecting pycparser==2.17 (from -r requirements.txt (line 45))
Collecting pyflakes==1.3.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 46))
  Using cached pyflakes-1.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PyJWT==1.4.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 47))
  Using cached PyJWT-1.4.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pymongo==3.4.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 48))
Collecting pyparsing==2.1.10 (from -r requirements.txt (line 49))
  Using cached pyparsing-2.1.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PySocks==1.6.6 (from -r requirements.txt (line 50))
Collecting pytest==3.0.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 51))
  Using cached pytest-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pytest-cov==2.4.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 52))
  Using cached pytest_cov-2.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting python-dateutil==2.6.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 53))
  Using cached python_dateutil-2.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pytz==2016.7 (from -r requirements.txt (line 54))
  Using cached pytz-2016.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PyYAML==3.12 (from -r requirements.txt (line 55))
Collecting redis==2.10.5 (from -r requirements.txt (line 56))
  Using cached redis-2.10.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests==2.12.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 57))
  Using cached requests-2.12.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting rsa==3.4.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 58))
  Using cached rsa-3.4.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting s3transfer==0.1.9 (from -r requirements.txt (line 59))
  Using cached s3transfer-0.1.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sentinels==1.0.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 60))
Collecting simplejson==3.10.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 61))
Requirement already up-to-date: six==1.10.0 in /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 62))
Collecting statsd==3.2.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 63))
  Using cached statsd-3.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting twilio==5.7.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 64))
Collecting Werkzeug==0.11.15 (from -r requirements.txt (line 65))
  Using cached Werkzeug-0.11.15-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting WTForms==2.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 66))
Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools>=11.3 in /Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography==1.7.1->-r requirements.txt (line 11))
Installing collected packages: appdirs, python-dateutil, jmespath, docutils, botocore, s3transfer, PyYAML, pyasn1, rsa, colorama, awscli, pycparser, cffi, bcrypt, blinker, boto3, click, coverage, idna, cryptography, requests, decorator, simplejson, datadog, driftwood, mccabe, pycodestyle, pyflakes, flake8, itsdangerous, Werkzeug, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, Flask, WTForms, Flask-Inputs, limits, Flask-Limiter, future, gunicorn, httplib2, libnacl, pbr, mock, mockredispy, pymongo, mongoengine, sentinels, mongomock, newrelic, pyasn1-modules, oauth2client, phonenumbers, py, pycountry, PyJWT, pyparsing, PySocks, pytest, pytest-cov, pytz, redis, statsd, twilio
  Found existing installation: appdirs 1.4.3
    Uninstalling appdirs-1.4.3:
      Successfully uninstalled appdirs-1.4.3
  Rolling back uninstall of appdirs
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2813, in _dep_map
    return self.__dep_map
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2624, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(attr)
AttributeError: _DistInfoDistribution__dep_map

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2804, in _parsed_pkg_info
    return self._pkg_info
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2624, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(attr)
AttributeError: _pkg_info

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 247, in move_wheel_files
    prefix=prefix,
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/locations.py", line 140, in distutils_scheme
    d = Distribution(dist_args)
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 320, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self, attrs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.6.0_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py", line 281, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 386, in finalize_options
    ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg)
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in require
    items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer, extras=self.extras)
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 862, in resolve
    new_requirements = dist.requires(req.extras)[::-1]
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2568, in requires
    dm = self._dep_map
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2815, in _dep_map
    self.__dep_map = self._compute_dependencies()
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2824, in _compute_dependencies
    for req in self._parsed_pkg_info.get_all('Requires-Dist') or []:
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2806, in _parsed_pkg_info
    metadata = self.get_metadata(self.PKG_INFO)
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1468, in get_metadata
    value = self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))
  File "/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1577, in _get
    with open(path, 'rb') as stream:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/johnberry/.virtualenvs/site-auth/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/METADATA'