Ubuntu – ImportError : No module named setuptools

14.04software installation

I was installing mininet on my ubuntu 14.04.3 and during the installation, I got the error "ImportError : No module named setuptools". I tried to install it using sudo apt-get install python-setuptools and it shows that it is already the newest version. But still the installation fails.

For installing mininet I followed the steps on https://github.com/mininet/mininet/blob/master/INSTALL and tried the following commands

git clone git://github.com/mininet/mininet.git
 cd mininet
 git tag
 git checkout 2.2.1
 util/install.sh -n

then the installation ran and stopped in between showing the error.

Best Answer

Use this command to install necessary package

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

If the application is python2 use this instead

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
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