Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

[Noel Redard Ayala]

Hey guys, please help me. I've been trying to install statsmodels using: pip3 install --upgrade statsmodels 

on my MAC OS X 10.7.5

Collecting statsmodels

  Using cached statsmodels-0.6.1.tar.gz

    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

    Traceback (most recent call last):

      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>

      File "/private/var/folders/tg/x97wmtys35jfhx06xf_0_nnm0000gn/T/pip-build-1thxgb1y/statsmodels/setup.py", line 393, in <module>

        install_requires) = check_dependency_versions(min_versions)

      File "/private/var/folders/tg/x97wmtys35jfhx06xf_0_nnm0000gn/T/pip-build-1thxgb1y/statsmodels/setup.py", line 137, in check_dependency_versions

        from pandas.version import short_version as pversion

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 44, in <module>

        from pandas.core.api import *

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/api.py", line 9, in <module>

        from pandas.core.groupby import Grouper

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/groupby.py", line 16, in <module>

        from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 41, in <module>

        from pandas.core.series import Series

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py", line 2864, in <module>

        import pandas.tools.plotting as _gfx

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/tools/plotting.py", line 28, in <module>

        import pandas.tseries.converter as conv

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pandas/tseries/converter.py", line 7, in <module>

        import matplotlib.units as units

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1131, in <module>

        rcParams = rc_params()

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 975, in rc_params

        return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error)

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1100, in rc_params_from_file

        config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1018, in _rc_params_in_file

        with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd:

      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/contextlib.py", line 59, in __enter__

        return next(self.gen)

      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1000, in _open_file_or_url

        encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]

      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 559, in getdefaultlocale

        return _parse_localename(localename)

      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.5.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 487, in _parse_localename

        raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)

    ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

    

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/tg/x97wmtys35jfhx06xf_0_nnm0000gn/T/pip-build-1thxgb1y/statsmodels

[josef...@gmail.com]

This fails in installing matplotlib

try 

pip --install matplotlib

if that fails, then this might be a question for the matplotlib mailing list

If you already have matplotlib and pandas and patsy installed, then you could also just use --no-dep

pip3 install --upgrade --no-deps statsmodels

which would only install statsmodels.

Hopefully someone knows this better than my minimal pip and non-existing Mac OS knowledge.

Josef

[Ralf Gommers]

Correction: it fails in importing matplotlib (``import matplotlib.units as units``).

So you have a broken matplotlib install.

``pip install`` won't re-install, so maybe try instead:

    pip install --upgrade --no-deps matplotlib

Ralf

[Noel Redard Ayala]

It says requirement already up to date….It doesn't work.

MacBook-Pro-de-Noel:~ NONO$ pip3 install --upgrade --no-deps matplotlib

Requirement already up-to-date: matplotlib in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages

[Nathaniel Smith]

Allegedly pip install has a --force-reinstall option that might be useful here

--
Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org

[Noel Redard Ayala]

I installed previous version of Matplotlib, doing pip3 install matplotlib==1.4.3, and it worked, now I don't have problems with python3.5, pandas, statsmodels and matplotlib!!!

Installing Matplotlib 1.5.0 has some crashes with pandas(0.17.0) and statsmodels (0.6.1) installations.

Thanks all for your help.