could not install ubuntu 16.04

[jonathanstrong]

Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-lxNTgC/tabular/setup.py", line 50, in <module>
        raise ImportError("distribute was not found and fallback to setuptools was not allowed")
    ImportError: distribute was not found and fallback to setuptools was not allowed

also tried running setup.py install in a cloned repo
python 2.7
new install of 16.04
just fyi

[dopatraman]

am also running into this issue, python 3.6

[brianjmurrell]

As am I on python 3.4 on CentOS 7.5 even when I get the latest version of pip.