The guide is outdated: https://github.com/AppScale/appscale-tools/wiki/Installing-the-AppScale-Tools-on-Linux To prevent the error "rsa requires Python '>=3.5, <4' but the running Python is 2.7.17", run the following command: ``` pip install google-api-python-client==1.5.4 oauth2client==4.0.0 rsa==4.0 ```