Error installing B2 Command Line on MacOS High Sierra

[JRC234]

I'm not very familiar with command line use or terminal, just enough to cut/paste from instructions, but since I'm going to add B2 to my account I thought tje command line tool should be added to my account. I followed the installation instructions on: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html
down through the "ignore-installed" work around but still get an error.

What should I do now? If I upgraded to Mojave before installing would that solve it?

Here is a transcript from Terminal when trying to install B2 command line tool:

[John-Office:~] john% sudo easy_install pip
Password:
Searching for pip
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Best match: pip 19.2.3
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/00/9e/4c83a0950d8bdec0b4ca72afd2f9cea92d08eb7c1a768363f2ea458d08b4/pip-19.2.3.tar.gz#sha256=e7a31f147974362e6c82d84b91c7f2bdf57e4d3163d3d454e6c3e71944d67135
Processing pip-19.2.3.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-lqWrgs/pip-19.2.3/setup.cfg
Running pip-19.2.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-lqWrgs/pip-19.2.3/egg-dist-tmp-mnWggw
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'python_requires'
warnings.warn(msg)
warning: no files found matching 'docs/docutils.conf'
warning: no previously-included files found matching '.coveragerc'
warning: no previously-included files found matching '.mailmap'
warning: no previously-included files found matching '.appveyor.yml'
warning: no previously-included files found matching '.travis.yml'
warning: no previously-included files found matching 'tox.ini'
warning: no files found matching 'Makefile' under directory 'docs'
warning: no files found matching '.bat' under directory 'docs'
warning: no previously-included files found matching 'src/pip/_vendor/six'
warning: no previously-included files found matching 'src/pip/_vendor/six/moves'
warning: no previously-included files matching '.pyi' found under directory 'src/pip/_vendor'
no previously-included directories found matching '.github'
no previously-included directories found matching '.azure-pipelines'
no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/build'
no previously-included directories found matching 'news'
no previously-included directories found matching 'tasks'
no previously-included directories found matching 'tests'
no previously-included directories found matching 'tools'
creating /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-19.2.3-py2.7.egg
Extracting pip-19.2.3-py2.7.egg to /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
Adding pip 19.2.3 to easy-install.pth file
Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pip2.7 script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pip2 script to /usr/local/bin

Installed /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-19.2.3-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for pip
Finished processing dependencies for pip

[John-Office:~] john% sudo pip install --upgrade b2
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Collecting b2
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/b6/71ec542b76ea5a282dd2c2fb6f8427d90e3397e5db59593510667f14f236/b2-1.4.0.tar.gz (42kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 51kB 1.8MB/s
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-TDdma3/b2/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-TDdma3/b2/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
cwd: /private/tmp/pip-install-TDdma3/b2/
Complete output (1 lines):
setuptools 20.2 or later is required. To fix, try running: pip install "setuptools>=20.2"
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[John-Office:~] john% pip install "setuptools>=20.2"
pip: Command not found.

[John-Office:~] john% sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed b2
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Collecting b2
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/b6/71ec542b76ea5a282dd2c2fb6f8427d90e3397e5db59593510667f14f236/b2-1.4.0.tar.gz
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-XHHC_R/b2/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-XHHC_R/b2/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
cwd: /private/tmp/pip-install-XHHC_R/b2/
Complete output (1 lines):
setuptools 20.2 or later is required. To fix, try running: pip install "setuptools>=20.2"
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[ppolewicz]

You forgot to prefix pip install "setuptools>=20.2" with sudo and it returned an error. Run:
sudo pip install "setuptools>=20.2"
and then
sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed b2

[JRC234]

Thanks for finding my problem. I feel stupid for not copying and pasting correctly. But I looked, and looked for what went wrong. I didn't know enough to spot the missing word. Thanks again.

[JRC234]

I spoke too soon. I did as you suggested but still get an error. I hope I'm not just too inexperienced to do this right...
After entering: sudo pip install "setuptools>=20.2" I still get an error as shown below:

[John-Office:~] john% sudo pip install "setuptools>=20.2"
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Collecting setuptools>=20.2
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b2/86/095d2f7829badc207c893dd4ac767e871f6cd547145df797ea26baea4e2e/setuptools-41.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: setuptools
Found existing installation: setuptools 18.5
Uninstalling setuptools-18.5:
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.pyc', '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/markers.pyc', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/markers.pyc'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.py', '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/init.py', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/init.py'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/markers.py', '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/markers.py', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/markers.py'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib/init.pyc', '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/init.pyc', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L/init.pyc'"), ('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/_markerlib', '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L', "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/tmp/pip-uninstall-5IIu2L'")]

If I run the command after that (sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed b2) it too gives an error, I assume because of the first error. I'm not sure why the lines below are showing strikethru's. It doesn't look like that in Terminal:

[John-Office:] john% sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed b2
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Collecting b2
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/b6/71ec542b76ea5a282dd2c2fb6f8427d90e3397e5db59593510667f14f236/b2-1.4.0.tar.gz
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-9sNWKo/b2/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-9sNWKo/b2/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
cwd: /private/tmp/pip-install-9sNWKo/b2/
Complete output (1 lines):
setuptools 20.2 or later is required. To fix, try running: pip install "setuptools>=20.2"
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
[John-Office:] john%

[ppolewicz]

It is a MacOS issue specific to system version of Python. @bwbeach perhaps you have some experience with this?