ImportError: module 'setuptools.dist' has no 'check_specifier' attribute
<p>Ceph teuthology installation fails with following error on Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 4.4.0-51-generic:</p>

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<pre><code>ImportError: &lt;module 'setuptools.dist' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.pyc'&gt; has no 'check_specifier' attribute
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