Installing Distribute in Windows

Asked Jun 05 '13 at 15:36

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I am following these instructions to install Distribute in Windows 7, but when I run the script to install I get the following error message:

Extracting in c:\users\michae~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpuvkx38
Now working in c:\users\michae~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpuvkx38\distribute-0.6.45
Installing Distribute
Something went wrong during the installation.
See the error message above.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Michael\Downloads\distribute_setup.py", line 556, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
SystemExit: 2

What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it?

asked Jun 05 '13 at 15:36

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Install from these [Windows packagings](http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#distribute) instead. – Martijn Pieters Jun 05 '13 at 15:39
I ran the windows installer, which seemed to work, but the command "easy_install pip" still does not work. – Michael Jun 05 '13 at 16:14
Define 'does not work'; is `Scripts` on your path. – Martijn Pieters Jun 05 '13 at 16:14
Does not work is defined as getting the following error message: "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" Define "on your path" – Michael Jun 05 '13 at 16:18
Is there a more complete traceback for that error? – Martijn Pieters Jun 05 '13 at 16:20
That is the entire error message. – Michael Jun 05 '13 at 16:20
That is unfortunate and unhelpful; running python, without any command line switches or arguments works? – Martijn Pieters Jun 05 '13 at 16:25

Installing Distribute in Windows

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