Failed to install python python on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

This is the command I used to install python-pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip 

I get the following error

 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: python-pip : Depends: python-setuptools (>= 0.6c1) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: python-dev-all (>= 2.6) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 

I already installed the latest version of python-dev

When I try to install python-setuptools using sudo apt-get install python-setuptools I get the following error

 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: python-setuptools : Depends: python-pkg-resources (= 3.3-1ubuntu1) but 3.3-1ubuntu2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 

Explain to me how to fix the error and give me instructions on installing python-pip .

Answer 1

got the same error when installing python-pip, the following command solved my problem.

 sudo apt-get install python-pkg-resources=3.3-1ubuntu1 sudo apt-get install python-setuptools 

Answer 2

download pip from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

Then run the following (which may require administrator access):

 python get-pip.py 

That should make you. If you're stuck again, read here: http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/stable/installing/

Answer 3

In addition to the solution that @seems recommended, I had to run this.

 apt-get update 

(OR)

 sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential sudo easy_install pip 

Answer 4

I think you should try:

 sudo apt-get install python-pkg-resources=3.3-1ubuntu1 

And then:

 sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential 

This will definitely solve your problem.