Easy Install is a python module ( easy_install ) bundled with setuptools that lets you automatically download, build, install, and manage Python packages. Sometimes due wrong installations easy_install might get corrupted and fail to install any package afterwords. You might see errors like below when you try to install any modules Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/easy_install", line 7, in from setuptools.command.easy_install import main File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in import setuptools.version File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in import pkg_resources File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 72, in import packaging.requirements File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/packaging/requireme...