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OpenStack Clients on Mac OS Yosemite

Clearly I havent written a blog post recently enough. That must explain the negative karma behind running into a tricky problem.

As we all know, "pipin aint easy". I held off upgrading to Yosemite for a long time so as not to break my functioning Mac with OpenStack clients. However, I found time and reason to upgrade last weekend and had helped several others through the Mac client solutions a week prior.

Alas, it was not to be a sweet journey for me. I endedup with the dreaded xmlrpc_client issue. Some coworkers determined that you could resolve this by uninstalling "six" and then reinstalling "six". Unfortunately that doesnt really work. A "sudo -H pip uninstall six" did do the right thing, but "easy_install six" never succeeded. And I should note the reason that six in pip doesnt work in the first place is that the Mac OS Yosemite itself has a downrev version of six installed.

The trick, at least in my case, was to "type -a easy_install" and note that there are two versions of easy_intall. Pick the second one and you are off to the races. Heres the steps if you are still reading:

dmbp:~ dmedberry$ sudo easy_install six #fails
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/easy_install-2.7", line 7, in
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3020, in
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 616, in _build_master
    return cls._build_from_requirements(__requires__)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 629, in _build_from_requirements
    dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 807, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools==1.1.6
dmbp:~ dmedberry$ type -a easy_install
easy_install is /usr/bin/easy_install
easy_install is /usr/local/bin/easy_install
dmbp:~ dmedberry$ sudo /usr/local/bin/easy_install six

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