Comment 2 for bug 1324391

I've try several ways to reproduce this but can't seem to manage it. It works for me on both 14.04 and 14.10 (e.g. python-pip 1.5.4-1ubuntu1 on 14.04.2) in chroots and VMs, inside a virtualenv and outside a virtualenv (with both --user and sudo into /usr/local). `pip --help` works, as does just `pip`.

I'd be happy to help debug this, but I can't trigger the problem locally, so I'll need more information.

Let's start with this: is python-requests installed on your system? What does `dpkg-query -W python-requests` say?