Fabric and Paramiko

Question

I was trying to install fabric on my CentOS 6.2.

Clones fabric from GitHub, installed it via setup.py install

Now fabric itself works, but when I try to use local :

from fabric.api import local

def say_hi():
    local("echo hi!")

I get an error:

$ fab say_hi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fab", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: paramiko>=1.10.0

I have installed paramiko using yum install python-paramiko

but that did not help.

Have been trying to read the code but I am way too 'noob' to get it. Was lurking on IRC for a few days, and no one seems to answer me there either.

Any ideas how can i fix this ?

Answer 1

I came across this problem and the documentation for Fabric (http://www.fabfile.org/faq.html) supplied the answer for me. In my case, I am using an OSX 10.9 using system Python (2.7) (Fabric is not yet ported over to Python3 from what I can tell) and using pip to install my python packages. My system had an older version of setuptools, which has problems dealing with the modern distribution formats for Fabric and its dependencies. This fixed the issue for me.

$ sudo pip install -U setuptools

No reinstall of Fabric needed.