title: elastic beanstalk, awsebcli, and blessed 1.9.5
body: <p>I was using the elastic beanstalk cli with AWS without any difficulty a few months ago. I wanted to update my website and ran into this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>me$ eb status Traceback (most recent call last):   File
    "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/eb", line 5, in
    
        from pkg_resources import load_entry_point   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/<strong>init</strong>.py",
    line 3095, in 
        @_call_aside   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/<strong>init</strong>.py",
    line 3081, in _call_aside
        f(*args, **kwargs)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/<strong>init</strong>.py",
    line 3108, in _initialize_master_working_set
        working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/<strong>init</strong>.py",
    line 660, in _build_master
        return cls._build_from_requirements(<strong>requires</strong>)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/<strong>init</strong>.py",
    line 673, in _build_from_requirements
        dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/<strong>init</strong>.py",
    line 846, in resolve
        raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'blessed==1.9.5' distribution
    was not found and is required by awsebcli</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I haven't been able to find anything about this error, except for a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33665282/how-can-i-configure-blessed-1-9-5-with-python-in-ubuntu">question</a>  about how to deal with a similar problem on ubuntu (I'm on a Mac) that has gone unanswered for a month. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any ideas?</p>