Dear Simon, What happens if you just run: pip install --user virtualenv yourself? Essentially I'm trying to identify whether it's a problem with your pip install (since that line doesn't really have much to do with Firedrake itself). Additionally, can you please let us know which release of which distribution you are running. Regards, David On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 at 12:35 Simon Dodd <S.Dodd@bath.ac.uk> wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to run the firedrake installer and it gets stuck on downloading virtualenv:

Original-Maintainer: Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org> installed. Installing virtualenv. Downloading/unpacking virtualenv Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/ Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement virtualenv No distributions at all found for virtualenv Storing complete log in /u/t/enxspd/.pip/pip.log Traceback (most recent call last): File "./firedrake-install", line 1134, in <module> check_call(["pip", "install", "--user", "virtualenv"]) File "./firedrake-install", line 342, in check_call subprocess.check_call(arguments, env=env) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['pip', 'install', '--user', 'virtualenv']' returned non-zero exit status 1

Looks like it cannot find the package. I check the link and it's an https site, not http?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Simon

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