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Description of problem:
It seems PyPI has changed something on their side, setuptools hasn't been modified recently. Now, easy_install is broken.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-setuptools-0.9.8-7.el7.noarch
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. For example, easy_install pip
Actual results:
Searching for pip
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Couldn't find index page for 'pip' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
No local packages or download links found for pip
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('pip')
Expected results:
Installation works. At least if the default or specified version is still compatible with Python 2.7. I remember I had to start using easy_install 'pip<21.0' earlier this year, but *that* worked.
Additional info:
You will probably close this bug because RHEL 7 is too old or because easy_install is no longer a preferred installer, but I'd appreciate any analysis of this issue and any workaround you might think of. (other than installing python3-pip)
One more additional piece of info: when you click on the first link from the command's output, you'll get redirected to https://pypi.org/simple/pip/ - which is a different hostname but the contents LGTM.
Comment 3Petr Viktorin (pviktori)
2021-07-23 12:43:02 UTC
pypi.org now requires SSL with the SNI extension. (This is a requirement from Fastly, which provides pypi's for sponsored CDN.)
The ssl and urllib modules in RHEL7 are patched to provide SNI, but easy_install has its own ssl_support that bypasses these.
To install pip from upstream, you can use their get-pip script:
$ curl -o get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py