virtualenv -p pypy fails with ZipImportError: cannot import name 'CertificateError'

[Marius Gedminas]

I'm trying to create a virtualenv with PyPy, using pypy 2.3.1+dfsg-1 from utopic/universe. This fails:

    $ virtualenv -p pypy /tmp/pypy
    Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/pypy
    New pypy executable in /tmp/pypy/bin/pypy
    Installing setuptools, pip...
      Complete output from command /tmp/pypy/bin/pypy -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip:
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "app_main.py", line 75, in run_toplevel
      File "app_main.py", line 581, in run_it
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    ZipImportError: cannot import name 'CertificateError'
    ----------------------------------------
    ...Installing setuptools, pip...done.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "app_main.py", line 75, in run_toplevel
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 2378, in <module>
        main()
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 830, in main
        symlink=options.symlink)
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1032, in create_environment
        install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 975, in install_wheel
        'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 917, in call_subprocess
        % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
    OSError: Command /tmp/pypy/bin/pypy -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip failed with error code 1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: python-virtualenv 1.11.6-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-26.34-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Dec 1 17:59:41 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-25 (859 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: python-virtualenv
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (38 days ago)

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

For the record, upstream virtualenv 1.11.6 (same version as in Ubuntu!) succeeds with pypy (but fails with Python 3.x).

[Vladimir Wetzel (wetzel)]

Hi Marius,

you can download new deb Files from vivid and install it.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/all/python-urllib3-whl/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/all/python-urllib3/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/all/python3-urllib3/download

Befor you test it again "virtualenv --python pypy pypytest" please remove the following folder:
"rm -rf pypytest .tox ve"

Bugreport on Debian-Bugtracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763389

Bugfix:

From: Daniele Tricoli <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Bug#763389: fixed in python-urllib3 1.9.1-3
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:19:21 +0000

Source: python-urllib3
Source-Version: 1.9.1-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
python-urllib3, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

I hope this help you

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I'm currently using 'pip install --user virtualenv' as a workaround.

[Tin Tvrtkovic (tinchester)]

Thee three packages from #3 solved my issue, as far as I can see.

[James Page (james-page)]

This bug refers to software versions in an unsupported Ubuntu release - comment #5 indicates that the vivid version (also unsupported now) resolves the issue so marking Fix Released.