getting updated distribute via pip requirements file

Question

im using pip requirements file for the dependencies with virtualenv. im using ubuntu10.04LTS now the problem has come up with djangorestframework, after adding it in .pip file

while downloading the requirements @URLObject error occurs and says

Downloading/unpacking URLObject>=0.6.0 (from djangorestframework->-r /var/lib/myproj/base.pip (line 26)) Using download cache from /usr/local/pipcache/http%3A%2F%2Fpypi.python.org%2Fpackages%2Fsource%2FU%2FURLObject%2FURLObject-2.0.1.tar.gz Running setup.py egg_info for package URLObject The required version of distribute (>=0.6.24) is not available, and can't be installed while this script is running. Please install a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U distribute'.
(Currently using distribute 0.6.10 (/var/lib/myproj/.ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py2.6.egg)) Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: The required version of distribute (>=0.6.24) is not available, and can't be installed while this script is running. Please install a more recent version first, using 'easy_install -U distribute' (Currently using distribute 0.6.10 (/var/lib/myproj/.ve/lib/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py2.6.egg))

my pip requirement file is as follows:

virtualenv
django
distribute
django-permissions
django-storages
django-sentry
#django-db-utils
PIL
#Required for APIs
djangorestframework

i have even tried by adding distribute-0.6.25 but in vain how do i upgrade distribute via pip requirements file.

Answer 1

I just hit the same issue.

Solved by running:

pip install -U distribute==0.6.25

I don't think you can update it via the requirements file because requirements are installed at once and not one by one.

Answer 2

if you need distribute to be 0.6.25 version, just specify it in the requirements:

virtualenv
django
distribute==0.6.25
django-permissions
django-storages
django-sentry
#django-db-utils
PIL
#Required for APIs
djangorestframework