"SSL certificate verify failed" using pip to install packages
Question:
I am trying to install the Scrapy package (among others) for python using pip. I have tried doing the installation using python 3 and python 2, I have installed/upgraded the setuptools like so: $ pip3 install --upgrade setuptools, I have tried to use the --trusted-host option like so: $ pip3 install --trusted-host pypi.python.org Scrapy. But I always get the same error message when I run $ pip3 install Scrapy. The complete output is this:
Collecting Scrapy
Using cached Scrapy-1.3.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PyDispatcher>=2.0.5 (from Scrapy)
Using cached PyDispatcher-2.0.5.tar.gz
Collecting service-identity (from Scrapy)
Using cached service_identity-16.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pyOpenSSL (from Scrapy)
Using cached pyOpenSSL-16.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting w3lib>=1.15.0 (from Scrapy)
Using cached w3lib-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting parsel>=1.1 (from Scrapy)
Using cached parsel-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting queuelib (from Scrapy)
Using cached queuelib-1.4.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5.2 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Collecting Twisted>=13.1.0 (from Scrapy)
Using cached Twisted-17.1.0.tar.bz2
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/incremental/: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'incremental' (maybe misspelled?)
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or working download links found for incremental>=16.10.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/private/var/folders/gy/5xt04_452z791v1qjs1yzxkh0000gn/T/pip-build-nkv4jozy/Twisted/setup.py", line 21, in <module>
setuptools.setup(**_setup["getSetupArgs"]())
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py", line 108, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 317, in __init__
self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs['setup_requires'])
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 372, in fetch_build_eggs
replace_conflicting=True,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 851, in resolve
dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1123, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1135, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 440, in fetch_build_egg
return cmd.easy_install(req)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 668, in easy_install
raise DistutilsError(msg)
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('incremental>=16.10.1')
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/gy/5xt04_452z791v1qjs1yzxkh0000gn/T/pip-build-nkv4jozy/Twisted/
I am on a mac OS version 10.12.1 and am using python 3.6.
Does anybody know a solution to this problem?
Answers:
Something to try — tell python to not use https with the index directive and a http:// address (not https://)
pip install --index-url=http://pypi.python.org/simple/ --trusted-host pypi.python.org Scrapy
You may be behind a corporate firewall and Ive have experiences where even the above failed, though Im not going to pretend like I know enough about firewalls or SSL to understand why. In that case the only way I was able to get around that was to get a certificate file and pass it to python. See kenorb’s answer here for details.
As stated here https://bugs.python.org/issue28150 in previous versions of python Apple supplied the OpenSSL packages but does not anymore.
Running the command pip install certifi and then pip install Scrapy fixed it for me
pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org autopep8 (any package name)
This command will add pypi.python.org to the trusted sources and will install all the required package.
I ran into the error myself and typing this command helped me install all the pip packages of python.
If adding pypi.python.org as a trusted host does not work, you try adding files.pythonhosted.org. For example
python -m pip install --upgrade --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <package-name>
One note on the above answers: it is no longer sufficient to add just pypi.python.org to the trusted-hosts in the case where you are behind an HTTPS-intercepting proxy (we have zScaler).
I currently have the following in my pip.ini:
trusted-host = pypi.python.org pypi.org files.pythonhosted.org
Running pip -v install pkg will give you some hints as to which hosts might need to be added.
You can try sudo apt-get upgrade to get the latest packages. It fixed the issue on my machine.
It looks like they are also using pypi.org now. I added the following to %appdata%pippip.ini and was able to download my packages from behind an HTTPS-intercepting proxy:
trusted-host = pypi.python.org files.pythonhosted.org pypi.org
If you’re using python3, you can try this too:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Scrapy --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org
It seems that Scrapy fails because installing Twisted fails, which fails because incremental fails. Running pip install --upgrade pip && pip install --upgrade incremental fixed this for me.
In Windows 10 / search the drive you have installed the conda or it should be in C:UsersnameAppDataRoamingpipright with your mouse right click and select edit with notepad leave the [global] and replace what ever you have in there with blow code, Ctrl+s and rerun the code. it should work.
trusted-host = pypi.python.org pypi.org files.pythonhosted.org
I had same issue. I was trying to install mysqlclient for my Django project.
In my case the system date/time wasn’t up-to date (Windows 8). That’s causing the error. So, updated my system date time and ran the command pip install mysqlclient again. And it did the work.
Hope this would be helpful for those people who’re executing all the commands out there (suggesting in other answers) without checking their system date/time.
pip3 install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <app>
Thank you for the solution. In my case the file %appdata%pippip.ini was not present. I created it manually with this content:
[global]
trusted-host = pypi.python.org files.pythonhosted.org pypi.org pypi.io
Pretty unique case here, but having Fiddler running (not even targeting the same process) gave me the same SSL errors. Running pip install with --verbose showed an error with Fiddler, closing Fiddler immediately fixed the issue.
The following command worked for me (install a package using pip)
pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <package_name>
Strange that nobody came up with this in so many years?
I debugged a Python 2 legacy setup and ran into the same error, just with some other package:
Download error on http://www.pylonshq.com/download/: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed — Some packages may not be found!
Not found: [‘http://www.pylonshq.com/download/’, and here were also my internal server links with legacy packages in the list]
…
Couldn’t find index page for ‘PasteDeploy’ (maybe misspelled?)
No local packages or download links found for PasteDeploy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 50, in
""",
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 239, in init
self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs.pop(‘setup_requires’))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 264, in fetch_build_eggs
replace_conflicting=True
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 620, in resolve
dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 858, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer) # try and download/install
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 870, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 314, in fetch_build_egg
return cmd.easy_install(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 616, in easy_install
return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 646, in install_item
dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 834, in install_eggs
return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1040, in build_and_install
self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1028, in run_setup
raise DistutilsError("Setup script exited with %s" % (v.args[0],))
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(‘PasteDeploy’)
Clearly, that download website is offline, and easy_install and eggs are deprecated. But you can still learn from this, I guess: you need to put the needed package in the setup_requires=[] list, not in the install_requires=[], and only then, it found the internal packages server with the legacy packages (you can also take an open packages server here).
The package was at
install_requires=["PasteDeploy>=1.0.0", ...],
but setuptools needed the entry instead at:
setup_requires=["PasteDeploy>=1.0.0, ...],
For some packages, it is not enough to put them in the install_requires=[] list since they are already needed during the setuptools setup which is needed before the install.
(Only setuptools should not be in there, see Should setuptools be in the setup_requires entry of setup.cfg files?).
I am trying to install the Scrapy package (among others) for python using pip. I have tried doing the installation using python 3 and python 2, I have installed/upgraded the setuptools like so: $ pip3 install --upgrade setuptools, I have tried to use the --trusted-host option like so: $ pip3 install --trusted-host pypi.python.org Scrapy. But I always get the same error message when I run $ pip3 install Scrapy. The complete output is this:
Collecting Scrapy
Using cached Scrapy-1.3.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PyDispatcher>=2.0.5 (from Scrapy)
Using cached PyDispatcher-2.0.5.tar.gz
Collecting service-identity (from Scrapy)
Using cached service_identity-16.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pyOpenSSL (from Scrapy)
Using cached pyOpenSSL-16.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting w3lib>=1.15.0 (from Scrapy)
Using cached w3lib-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting parsel>=1.1 (from Scrapy)
Using cached parsel-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting queuelib (from Scrapy)
Using cached queuelib-1.4.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5.2 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Collecting Twisted>=13.1.0 (from Scrapy)
Using cached Twisted-17.1.0.tar.bz2
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/incremental/: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'incremental' (maybe misspelled?)
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749) -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or working download links found for incremental>=16.10.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/private/var/folders/gy/5xt04_452z791v1qjs1yzxkh0000gn/T/pip-build-nkv4jozy/Twisted/setup.py", line 21, in <module>
setuptools.setup(**_setup["getSetupArgs"]())
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py", line 108, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 317, in __init__
self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs['setup_requires'])
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 372, in fetch_build_eggs
replace_conflicting=True,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 851, in resolve
dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1123, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1135, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 440, in fetch_build_egg
return cmd.easy_install(req)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 668, in easy_install
raise DistutilsError(msg)
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('incremental>=16.10.1')
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/gy/5xt04_452z791v1qjs1yzxkh0000gn/T/pip-build-nkv4jozy/Twisted/
I am on a mac OS version 10.12.1 and am using python 3.6.
Does anybody know a solution to this problem?
Something to try — tell python to not use https with the index directive and a http:// address (not https://)
pip install --index-url=http://pypi.python.org/simple/ --trusted-host pypi.python.org Scrapy
You may be behind a corporate firewall and Ive have experiences where even the above failed, though Im not going to pretend like I know enough about firewalls or SSL to understand why. In that case the only way I was able to get around that was to get a certificate file and pass it to python. See kenorb’s answer here for details.
As stated here https://bugs.python.org/issue28150 in previous versions of python Apple supplied the OpenSSL packages but does not anymore.
Running the command pip install certifi and then pip install Scrapy fixed it for me
pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org autopep8 (any package name)
This command will add pypi.python.org to the trusted sources and will install all the required package.
I ran into the error myself and typing this command helped me install all the pip packages of python.
If adding pypi.python.org as a trusted host does not work, you try adding files.pythonhosted.org. For example
python -m pip install --upgrade --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <package-name>
One note on the above answers: it is no longer sufficient to add just pypi.python.org to the trusted-hosts in the case where you are behind an HTTPS-intercepting proxy (we have zScaler).
I currently have the following in my pip.ini:
trusted-host = pypi.python.org pypi.org files.pythonhosted.org
Running pip -v install pkg will give you some hints as to which hosts might need to be added.
You can try sudo apt-get upgrade to get the latest packages. It fixed the issue on my machine.
It looks like they are also using pypi.org now. I added the following to %appdata%pippip.ini and was able to download my packages from behind an HTTPS-intercepting proxy:
trusted-host = pypi.python.org files.pythonhosted.org pypi.org
If you’re using python3, you can try this too:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Scrapy --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org
It seems that Scrapy fails because installing Twisted fails, which fails because incremental fails. Running pip install --upgrade pip && pip install --upgrade incremental fixed this for me.
In Windows 10 / search the drive you have installed the conda or it should be in C:UsersnameAppDataRoamingpipright with your mouse right click and select edit with notepad leave the [global] and replace what ever you have in there with blow code, Ctrl+s and rerun the code. it should work.
trusted-host = pypi.python.org pypi.org files.pythonhosted.org
I had same issue. I was trying to install mysqlclient for my Django project.
In my case the system date/time wasn’t up-to date (Windows 8). That’s causing the error. So, updated my system date time and ran the command pip install mysqlclient again. And it did the work.
Hope this would be helpful for those people who’re executing all the commands out there (suggesting in other answers) without checking their system date/time.
pip3 install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <app>
Thank you for the solution. In my case the file %appdata%pippip.ini was not present. I created it manually with this content:
[global]
trusted-host = pypi.python.org files.pythonhosted.org pypi.org pypi.io
Pretty unique case here, but having Fiddler running (not even targeting the same process) gave me the same SSL errors. Running pip install with --verbose showed an error with Fiddler, closing Fiddler immediately fixed the issue.
The following command worked for me (install a package using pip)
pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org <package_name>
Strange that nobody came up with this in so many years?
I debugged a Python 2 legacy setup and ran into the same error, just with some other package:
Download error on http://www.pylonshq.com/download/: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed — Some packages may not be found!
Not found: [‘http://www.pylonshq.com/download/’, and here were also my internal server links with legacy packages in the list]
…
Couldn’t find index page for ‘PasteDeploy’ (maybe misspelled?)
No local packages or download links found for PasteDeploy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 50, in
""",
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 239, in init
self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs.pop(‘setup_requires’))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 264, in fetch_build_eggs
replace_conflicting=True
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 620, in resolve
dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 858, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer) # try and download/install
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 870, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 314, in fetch_build_egg
return cmd.easy_install(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 616, in easy_install
return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 646, in install_item
dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 834, in install_eggs
return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1040, in build_and_install
self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1028, in run_setup
raise DistutilsError("Setup script exited with %s" % (v.args[0],))
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(‘PasteDeploy’)
Clearly, that download website is offline, and easy_install and eggs are deprecated. But you can still learn from this, I guess: you need to put the needed package in the setup_requires=[] list, not in the install_requires=[], and only then, it found the internal packages server with the legacy packages (you can also take an open packages server here).
The package was at
install_requires=["PasteDeploy>=1.0.0", ...],
but setuptools needed the entry instead at:
setup_requires=["PasteDeploy>=1.0.0, ...],
For some packages, it is not enough to put them in the install_requires=[] list since they are already needed during the setuptools setup which is needed before the install.
(Only setuptools should not be in there, see Should setuptools be in the setup_requires entry of setup.cfg files?).