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A simple problem. When I install or upgrade packages with pip, I get a very weird error. Input:


pip3 install numpy

output:


Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -etuptools (/home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -etuptools (/home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (1.20.2)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -etuptools (/home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -etuptools (/home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -etuptools (/home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages)

Any ideas what happened?


OS: Ubuntu 20.04


Python: 3.8.5


setupools: 56.0.0


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Go to your site-packages folder (in your case: /home/max/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages) and delete folders with "~".


You will find there
~etuptools


Answer was found here.


Explanation what are those folders here.


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