pip install heatmap fails on v2.2.1 on Ubuntu 64bit

[fawkesley]

Full trace below:

$ pip install heatmap
Downloading/unpacking heatmap
  Downloading heatmap-2.2.1.zip
  Running setup.py egg_info for package heatmap

Installing collected packages: heatmap
  Running setup.py install for heatmap
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: -c --help-commands
       or: -c cmd --help

    error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
    Complete output from command /home/paul/v/heatmap/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/home/paul/v/heatmap/build/heatmap/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-i5sP5C-record/install-record.txt --install-headers /home/paul/v/heatmap/include/site/python2.7:
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]

   or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]

   or: -c --help-commands

   or: -c cmd --help



error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized

----------------------------------------
Command /home/paul/v/heatmap/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/home/paul/v/heatmap/build/heatmap/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-i5sP5C-record/install-record.txt --install-headers /home/paul/v/heatmap/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in /home/paul/v/heatmap/build/heatmap
Storing complete log in /home/paul/.pip/pip.log

[dalanmiller]

Got this same error on Mac ;(

[eriknaslund]

A workaround is to add the --egg argument to pip, e.g.
pip install --egg heatmap

[Henner]

still does not work...