Pip install --azure-cli fails on Ubuntu 14.04

[devigned]

Steps to reproduce:

Create a new VM

az vm create -g ${project_id} -n ${vm_name} --admin-username deploy --image UbuntuLTS

SSH into the VM and run

deploy@habitat-dev:~$sudo apt-get install python-pip
deploy@habitat-dev:~$pip install --user azure-cli
deploy@habitat-dev:~$ pip install --user azure-cli
Downloading/unpacking azure-cli
  Downloading azure_cli-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Downloading/unpacking azure-cli-network (from azure-cli)
  Downloading azure_cli_network-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (243kB): 243kB downloaded
Downloading/unpacking azure-cli-appservice (from azure-cli)
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement azure-cli-appservice (from azure-cli) (from versions: 0.1.1b1, 0.1.1b5, 0.1.1b2, 0.1.0b11, 0.1.1b4, 0.1.0b9, 0.1.1b5, 0.1.1b2, 0.1.0b10, 0.1.1b3, 0.1.0b9, 0.1.0b11, 0.1.1b1, 0.1.0b10, 0.1.1b3, 0.1.1b4)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for azure-cli-appservice (from azure-cli)
Storing debug log for failure in /home/deploy/.pip/pip.log

deploy@habitat-dev:~$ python --version
Python 2.7.6

[devigned]

16.04 seemed to work just fine afterapt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev

[tjprescott]

I experienced the same issue, even after installing the prerequisites. The curl script was successful. @derekbekoe is there a way to run the curl script with prompts?

[derekbekoe]

This looks the same as #1308.
Old versions of pip require the --pre flag to get prerelease packages.

[tjprescott]

Running with --pre failed for a different reason, but for @devigned here's what did work (thanks to @derekbekoe):

After you install the pre-reqs, run:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

This will install the latest version of PIP. If you do what Ubuntu suggest and do sudo apt-get install python-pip you will get an ancient version of pip that will not work. Then run:
pip install --user --upgrade azure-cli
(This is because Ubuntu has an old version of requests that will cause an error...)

export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

THEN... az should work for you. 😄

[devigned]

@derekbekoe pip install --user azure-cli --pre also failed

[tjprescott]

Ultimately the reason this failed was the ancient version of Pip that Ubuntu 14 fetches with apt-get. @devigned are there any remaining action items for this issue or can it be closed?

[devigned]

Nah, we can close this. I mostly wanted to make sure there was an issue out here for this as it's likely someone will come across this.