# unknown distribution option

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unknown-distribution-option/14474>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 2, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unknown-distribution-option/14474 "2014-02-02T09:48:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Diogene\_Laerce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Diogene\_Laerce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Diogene_Laerce)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unknown-distribution-option/14474/1 "2014-02-02T09:48:55Z")

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Hi,

I have this error :

/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install\_requires'  
warnings.warn(msg)

when running : sudo python setup.py install  
with the last version of ansible (1.4.1) on debian wheezy.

Is this something I should worry of ?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unknown-distribution-option/14474/2 "2014-02-02T18:10:51Z")

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So I’d highly recommend building the package instead. You can “make debian” to build one.

I should also point out the last released version of Ansible is actually 1.4.4 – so you may want to think about upgrading – see [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md)