title: Error while starting new scrapy project
body: <p>I have installed Scrapy using Ubuntu packages provided in the Scrapy website.
  But on starting a Scrapy project </p>
  
  <pre><code>scrapy startproject test 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting error message as. </p>
  
  <pre><code> Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/scrapy", line 5,
   in &lt;module&gt;
       from pkg_resources import load_entry_point   File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3084,
   in &lt;module&gt;
          File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3070, in _call_aside
          File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3097, in _initialize_master_working_set
          File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 653, in _build_master
          File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 666, in _build_from_requirements
          File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 844, in resolve
        pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (pyasn1 0.1.7 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages),
   Requirement.parse('pyasn1&gt;=0.1.8'), set(['pyasn1-modules']))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help me solve this error. I am running Python 2.7.6</p>