Original date: 2013/10/10
Original reporter: *Jonathon DOT Reinhart AND gmail DOT COOM *

I was attempting to install PyInstaller 2.1 on a system without internet access via python setup.py build, sudo python setup.py install. Towards the end, it tried (unsuccessfully) to download from pypi.python.org/simple/distribute. I traced this down to this line in setup.py:

install_requires=['distribute']

While trying to track this dependency down, I realized that distribute 0.73 "is a simple compatibility layer that installs Setuptools 0.7+." (which I had just installed.)

Simply deleting that line and re-running setup.py appeared to work just fine. Since I had setuptools installed, is this just some holdover? It didn't appear to be necessary.