I am trying to send an email using Flask when a user registers on my website. I used the command pip install Flask-Mail to install. However, I get the following error of possible version mismatch:
Downloading/unpacking Flask-mail
Downloading Flask-Mail-0.9.1.tar.gz (45kB): 45kB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/Flask-mail/setup.py) egg_info for package Flask-mail
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip_build_root/Flask-mail/setup.py", line 52, in <module>
'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 225, in __init__
_Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
self.finalize_options()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 257, in finalize_options
ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2029, in require
working_set.resolve(self.dist.requires(self.extras),env,installer))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 592, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (certifi 2016.2.28 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('certifi==2015.11.20'))
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip_build_root/Flask-mail/setup.py", line 52, in <module>
'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 225, in __init__
_Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
self.finalize_options()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 257, in finalize_options
ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2029, in require
working_set.resolve(self.dist.requires(self.extras),env,installer))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 592, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist,req) # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (certifi 2016.2.28 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('certifi==2015.11.20'))
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/Flask-mail
Any possible workarounds? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
