According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/40167445/486919 and http://stackoverflow.com/a/40167000/486919, this is a bug on Ubuntu's end and a bug report has been made at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1635463. Consider clicking on "Does this bug affect you?" followed by "Yes, it affects me" to bring this bug to the maintainers' attention.
For the time being, as stated in http://stackoverflow.com/a/40167445/486919, you can use pip freeze
with grep -v
to create requirements.txt
that you can subsequently use with pip install -r
:
pip freeze | grep -v "pkg-resources" > requirements.txt