python - Error when installing using pip

Question

Not sure whats going on here but I am getting an error every time I try to install something using pip I get the following error:

Command "/usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/b0/5843zgyj1yz3b8q2l7wrtj8h0000gn/T/pip-build-V4hy8S/PySocks/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace(' ', ' '), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/b0/5843zgyj1yz3b8q2l7wrtj8h0000gn/T/pip-bIOl7C-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/b0/5843zgyj1yz3b8q2l7wrtj8h0000gn/T/pip-build-V4hy8S/PySocks

Answer 1

Try

sudo pip install -U setuptools

If this doesn't solve your problem then

Firstly, you need the python-dev package because Pillow needs compile headers defined.

sudo apt-get install python-dev

On Ubuntu 14.04 you need few extra packages to get pillow working. Install all of them with the command:

sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk