pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: boto==2.29.1

gsutil cp failed.tar.gz gs://my_bucket
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/gsutil", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2707, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 686, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 584, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: boto==2.29.1

But:

pip freeze | grep boto
boto==2.29.1
gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin==1.5

Huh what? I’m running on a Debian Wheezy GCE instance and tried the following updates:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo pip install -U boto
sudo pip install -U gsutil
curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

Requirement already up-to-date: gsutil in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: boto==2.29.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: crcmod>=1.7 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin>=1.5 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: google-api-python-client>=1.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: httplib2>=0.8 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: pyOpenSSL>=0.13 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: python-gflags>=2.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: retry-decorator>=1.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: SocksiPy-branch==1.01 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: cryptography>=0.2.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from pyOpenSSL>=0.13->gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: six>=1.5.2 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from pyOpenSSL>=0.13->gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: cffi>=0.8 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from cryptography>=0.2.1->pyOpenSSL>=0.13->gsutil)
Requirement already up-to-date: pycparser in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from cffi>=0.8->cryptography>=0.2.1->pyOpenSSL>=0.13->gsutil)

[jterrace]

Could you try:

pip uninstall boto
pip install -U gsutil

[alexreg]

Why must the dependency be on an exact version? Can it not be a >= dependency (i.e. that version or newer)?