# Problem about create a own beats **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [December 23, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898 "2016-12-23T10:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![heiswade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90db22/32.png) [@heiswade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heiswade)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/1 "2016-12-23T10:14:09Z")
# when I used cookiecutter follow the instructions to create the exaplebeat,but it seems losing some files. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/0/08078dadeb8ac986973ce8fab1dd9ea618b9816d.PNG) when do like this:make setup,problem comed: ## mkdir -p vendor/github.com/elastic/ cp -R /opt/bobo/work/src/github.com/elastic/beats vendor/github.com/elastic/ rm -rf vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/.git make update make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/bobo/work/src/github.com/examplebeat' New python executable in /opt/bobo/work/src/github.com/examplebeat/build/python-env/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip, wheel... Complete output from command /opt/bobo/work/src/g...ython-env/bin/python - setuptools pip wheel: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 7, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/ **init**.py", line 28, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 9, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/index.py", line 33, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/\_vendor/html5lib/ **init**.py", line 16, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/\_vendor/html5lib/html5parser.py", line 11, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/\_vendor/html5lib/\_inputstream.py", line 13, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv\_support/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/\_vendor/html5lib/\_utils.py", line 11, in ImportError: No module named xml.etree.ElementTree # ...Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 8, in load\_entry\_point('virtualenv==15.1.0', 'console\_scripts', 'virtualenv')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 713, in main symlink=options.symlink) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 945, in create\_environment download=download, File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 901, in install\_wheel call\_subprocess(cmd, show\_stdout=False, extra\_env=env, stdin=SCRIPT) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 797, in call\_subprocess % (cmd\_desc, proc.returncode)) OSError: Command /opt/bobo/work/src/g...ython-env/bin/python - setuptools pip wheel failed with error code 1 make[1]: \*\*\* [python-env] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/bobo/work/src/github.com/examplebeat' make: \*\*\* [setup] Error 2 how should I deal with it? thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Glen\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/glen_smith/32/111656_2.png) [@Glen\_Smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Glen_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/2 "2016-12-23T13:27:11Z")
Can you tell what exact version of python2.7 you are using? ---
**Author:** ![heiswade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90db22/32.png) [@heiswade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heiswade)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/4 "2016-12-26T02:52:24Z")
thanks Glen here is version of python 2.7 I'm using: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/31aec09c0a80cd31a670894ca4fd037681144a4c.png) ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/5 "2016-12-26T22:27:46Z")
Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/6 "2016-12-27T08:43:42Z")
I'm not sure what the problem is, but it does seem related to python or virtualenv versions. Do you get an error when calling `virtualenv /tmp/env`? If yes, and if you have virtualenv installed as a system package, I recommend trying to uninstall it and install it back using `easy_install virtualenv`. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/7 "2017-01-02T18:55:02Z")
Our minimal requirement for python is 2.7.9: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) I remember there were some issues with prior versions. Can you updated your python version? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-about-create-a-own-beats/69898/8 "2017-01-13T10:14:44Z")
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