title: Why can I not upgrade pip?
body: <p>I have been trying to upgrade the Pip version that is installed on a VM hosted on Azure (current version is 8.1.2) and cannot get it to upgrade.</p>
  <p>I have also already tried to upgrade both supertools and setuptools but they all generate the same error.</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Command &quot;python setup.py egg_info&quot; failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-x/<em>pip</em>, <em>setuptools</em>, <em>supertools</em></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKMxs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Error message + script</a></p>
  <p>Any clues on how to get around this issue and/or how to resolve it?</p>
  <p>Happy to provide any additional information as necessary.</p>