虚拟环境virtualenv问题PIP Install Numpy throws an error “ascii codec can't decode byte 0xe2”

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PIP Install Numpy throws an error “ascii codec can't decode byte 0xe2”

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I have a freshly installed Ubuntu on a freshly built computer. I just installed python-pip using apt-get. Now when I try to pip install Numpy and Pandas, it gives the following error. I've seen this error mentioned in quite a few places on SO and Google, but I haven't been able to find a solution. Some people mention it's a bug, some threads are just dead... What's going on?

来源： https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26473681/pip-install-numpy-throws-an-error-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xe2

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>

    load_entry_point('pip==1.5.4', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 185, in main

    return command.main(cmd_args)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 161, in main

    text = '\n'.join(complete_log)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)

python  numpy  pandas  pip share improve this question asked  Oct 20 '14 at 19:46 Josh.F 1,184 1 10 21

3   Are there non-ASCII characters in your hostname, home directory, &c.? Does setting LC_ALL=C make any difference? –  Charles Duffy  Oct 20 '14 at 20:15 1   While this post is aimed at Amazon's EC2, it seems to be the same problem, and I find the answers more helpful: stackoverflow.com/questions/19595944/… –  BenjaminGolder  Dec 4 '14 at 12:07 I still do have a problem with the installation even though i have gotten numpy. Is there anyone else that have this problem? –  eleijonmarck  Mar 19 '15 at 21:45 As OP, and 3 years later, I can say I have solved this by migrating to Haskell ;) –  Josh.F  Aug 7 at 22:50 add a comment

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I had this exact problem recently and used

 

apt-get install python-numpy

This adds numpy to your system python interpreter. I may have had to do the same for matplotlib. To use in a virtualenv, you have to create your environment using the

 

--system-site-packages

option http://www.scipy.org/install.html share improve this answer answered  Oct 20 '14 at 20:11 Jeff M. 799 7 7

1   Thanks! Also, I found that if python-dev doesn't come stock on the computer, you need that too –  Josh.F  Oct 20 '14 at 20:16 Yeah. I remember that now.. Good catch. –  Jeff M.  Oct 20 '14 at 20:17 3   You don't need to recreate your virtualenv, you can modify an existing one with virtualenv VIRTUALENV_DIR --system-site-packages. –  fiatjaf  Dec 6 '14 at 3:09 3   Had same issue on Ubuntu server 14.02. sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev solved the issue. –  baltasvejas  May 25 '15 at 16:31 1   This solves the problem but I think you should at least mention you are making (all) system packages available, so the point of using virtualenv is partially defeated... –  Mark  Aug 2 '15 at 13:53 show 1 more comment

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For me @Charles Duffy comment solved it. Put this in your env: LC_ALL=C You can add it to your .bashrc with a line like this: export LC_ALL=C But take in care that you'll affect all other programs. So you may want to use it just for the pip run: $ LC_ALL=C pip install ... share improve this answer edited Jun 5 at 13:02 answered  Jul 22 '15 at 20:16 msemelman 1,851 14 19

1   This seems to be the correct answer. Using --system-site-packages was not an option for me. –  moi  Aug 11 '15 at 13:16 4   a better wording for you answer would be: add "export LC_ALL=C" to your ~/.bashrc –  Gil Hiram  Jun 28 '16 at 8:43 @GilHiram Depends on your shell type you may have to set up this env variable in other places. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50665/… –  msemelman  Jun 29 '16 at 13:51 1   The install didn't work for me both within, and outside a virtualenv so using --system-site-packages was not the right answer. I got it to work inside a virtualenv with LC_ALL=C pip install .... –  Arjun  Sep 19 '16 at 16:55 what does export LC_ALL=C mean / do ? –  javadba  Jun 27 at 20:40 add a comment

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Try updating pip:

 

pip install -U pip

share improve this answer answered  Jul 23 '16 at 17:40 Noah 6,768 3 39 52
	This worked for me on debian jessie inside of a venv. –  kalebo  May 4 at 15:47  add a comment

up vote 7 down vote

I had that problem with matplotlib package. I had to execute:

 

export LC_ALL=C

pip install --upgrade setuptools

share improve this answer answered  Aug 12 '15 at 19:14 max 3,204 4 38 68
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up vote 4 down vote

For me this was solved by ignoring a (presumably) corrupted cache with

 

pip install --no-cache-dir ...

as described here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2674 share improve this answer answered  Mar 1 '16 at 19:18 jvd10 701 6 12
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up vote 3 down vote

A combination of

 

sudo apt-get install python-dev

and

 

export LC_ALL=C

pip install --upgrade setuptools

solved my problem. share improve this answer edited Oct 21 '15 at 7:00 wudzik 16.8k 12 54 78 answered  Oct 21 '15 at 6:36 Ali 31 1
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up vote 3 down vote	I had a similar error when running pip install pandas and it was due to a memory shortage. I increased the memory in my virtual machine to 4G and that fixed things. share improve this answer edited Mar 22 at 19:19 answered  Dec 15 '14 at 22:03 Selah 2,695 3 19 33
	1   Same here. Upgraded VM instance from 1 to a 2 gig RAM temporarily while installing. –  darwindave  Jan 15 '15 at 3:05 add a comment

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In 'site-packages' directory, make 'sitecustomize.py' like this

 

import sys

sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

Now you can get the file 'pip.log' share improve this answer answered  Nov 20 '14 at 8:46 Toby Seo 80 8
	This is only an indirect answer, but it teaches something and does not deserve to be downvoted. –  user1158559  Mar 3 '16 at 17:05 add a comment

up vote 1 down vote	try sudo apt-get install python-numpy . It worked out for me and same can be used for scipy,pandas etc by replacing them in place of numpy. (Y) share improve this answer answered  Sep 16 '15 at 8:09 Tavleen 11 2
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If you want the pip version of numpy, you can build the dependencies for the package and then install it using pip

 

sudo apt-get build-dep python-numpy

pip install numpy

This should install everything needed at system level to install the package. share improve this answer answered  Dec 4 '15 at 1:21 arinarmo 33 5
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up vote 0 down vote	Had a similar problem on a Jetson TK1 with Ubuntu. Works fine with apt-get install python-pandas share improve this answer answered  Mar 5 '16 at 0:11 rafaelvalle 2,056 13 24
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So many answers and none worked for me even though some clearly worked for other people. But I then figured out what my problem was, so I'll just add it to the collection:

 

dpkg-reconfigure locales

# enable the "en-US.UTF-8" locale

# when asked for a default, no need to define one

The thing is, I was working inside a Debian Stretch linux container that happened to not have any UTF-8 locales installed, probably because I downloaded a minimal stock image. With this UTF-8 locale now installed, pip properly installed numpy and other packages. share improve this answer answered  Aug 7 at 21:24 jlh 578 8 24
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In my case I had just installed Python from source (on a remote machine where I am not sudo). For whatever reason, pip was on some really old version. So after:

 

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

I was able to install numpy and everything I wanted without trouble. share improve this answer answered  Aug 11 at 20:55 Pete 6,856 7 27 43
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up vote 0 down vote

I met the similar problem. I tried:

 

export LC_ALL=C

pip install --upgrade setuptools

But it did not solve the problem, but another error came up: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'rollback' Then I tried:

 

pip install -U pip

Then the problem was solved.