salt on FreeBSD error

[smkelly@mongo-1 ~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD mongo-1.hou.flightaware.com 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul  8 06:37:44 UTC 2014     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
[smkelly@mongo-1 ~]$ pkg info|grep salt
py27-salt-2014.1.7             Distributed remote execution and configuration management system
[smkelly@mongo-1 ~]$ salt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/salt", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2876, in <module>
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 449, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 745, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 639, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: salt==2014.1.7

Have the same error. Quick fix for now is:

pip install salt==2014.1.7

Hi guys, have you found any other fix then pip? I don't want to mess with pip on servers...

Anyone got a solution for this? I have just bumped with this today and had to install py-pip and execute what @wunki said.

Thanks!