Cannot install PIP on Raspbian

Question

I can't get PIP running in my Raspberry (running in Wheezy). After I always got this message:

~ $ pip3
/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-8.1.2-py3.2.egg/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py:80:
UserWarning: Support for Python 3.0-3.2 has been dropped. Future
versions will fail here.   warnings.warn(msg) Traceback (most recent
call last):   File "/usr/local/bin/pip3", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==8.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'pip3')()   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 337, in
load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2280, in
load_entry_point
    return ep.load()   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1990, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])   File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-8.1.2-py3.2.egg/pip/__init__.py",
line 16, in <module>
    from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar  # noqa   File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-8.1.2-py3.2.egg/pip/vcs/mercurial.py",
line 9, in <module>
    from pip.download import path_to_url   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-8.1.2-py3.2.egg/pip/download.py",
line 36, in <module>
    from pip.utils.ui import DownloadProgressBar, DownloadProgressSpinner   File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-8.1.2-py3.2.egg/pip/utils/ui.py",
line 15, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.progress.bar import Bar, IncrementalBar   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-8.1.2-py3.2.egg/pip/_vendor/progress/bar.py",
line 48
    empty_fill = u'∙'
                      ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I compiled Python3.5 and now try running the get-pip.py script. But this gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "get-pip.py", line 19177, in
<module>
    main()   File "get-pip.py", line 194, in main
    bootstrap(tmpdir=tmpdir)   File "get-pip.py", line 82, in bootstrap
    import pip   File "/tmp/tmprewy_1xt/pip.zip/pip/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>   File
"/tmp/tmprewy_1xt/pip.zip/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 9, in <module> 
File "/tmp/tmprewy_1xt/pip.zip/pip/index.py", line 30, in <module>  
File "/tmp/tmprewy_1xt/pip.zip/pip/wheel.py", line 39, in <module>  
File "/tmp/tmprewy_1xt/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py", line
14, in <module>   File
"/tmp/tmprewy_1xt/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py", line 66, in
<module> ImportError: cannot import name 'HTTPSHandler'

OpenSSL is installed.

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

OK, sorted. Apparently my Python 2.7 install was somewhat corrupted. After I did sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade which - with some hick-ups - fixed the install. After that I re-built the 3.5.1 binaries and pip3 works now fine.