Questions tagged [easy-install]

EasyInstall is a package manager that provides a standard format to distribute Python programs and libraries. Part of the `setuptools` module.

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installing mechanize with easy_install

I just got easy_install downloaded but i'm having problems installing mechanize, should I be addressing site-packages at any point. In the first try below, i got an error. in the second try below, i got command not found which is wierd since I know…
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How can I deal with python eggs for multiple platforms in one location?

We have a common python installation for all of our systems in order to ensure every system has the same python installation and to ease configuration issues. This installation is located on a shared drive. We also have multiple platforms that…
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Trouble install PIP Windows

I have read posts on here but something doesn't seem to work. I am new to Python dev. I am running windows 7 64bit. I am trying to install pip which I have downloaded and have easy_install in my c:\python27\scripts directory. When I use powershell…
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Cannot easy_install readline for Python 2.7.3 on Mac Os Lion

I am trying to install the python readline module. I have already installed readline via homebrew. If I type easy_install readline I get Downloading…
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Python Subversion wrapper library

In Subversion's documentation there's an example of using Subversion from Python #!/usr/bin/python import svn.fs, svn.core, svn.repos def crawl_filesystem_dir(root, directory): """Recursively crawl DIRECTORY under ROOT in the filesystem, and…
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Unable to do heroku's Python tutorial within Dropbox folder

EDIT2: OK this is weird. (I can't answer my own question, so I just put it as another edit to the question. I think it has something to do with the fact that I tried to do this installation within a Dropbox-synced directory. I got this to work on my…
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pip is not installing my data_files. But easy_install does

This is going to be a short question. The source is here: https://github.com/exhuma/grc And the title explains my problem ;) I registered and uploaded the package to pypi. Now if I run easy_install grc, it works as expected. But if I run pip install…
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Setuptools / distutils: Installing files into the distribution's DLLs directory on Windows

I'm writing a setup.py which uses setuptools/distutils to install a python package I wrote. It need to install two DLL files (actually a DLL file and a PYD file) into location which is available for python to load. Thought this is the DLLs directory…
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sudo easy_install pip not working

I'm having trouble executing the sudo easy_install pip command on my mac. I'm not behind a firewall. I'm using python version 2.7.10. The version of macOS Sierra is 10.12.4. Here is the error I receive: Searching for pip Reading…
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Error when installing secp256k1 library on windows

I am trying to install the secp256k1 library on my windows 10 64-bit machine and I receive the following error C:\Users\user\Downloads\http-ftp>pip3 install secp256k1 Collecting secp256k1 Using cached…
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Easy_install or pip with NTLM auth

In my working environment, internet access is managed by NTLM authentication and is associated with Windows user account, and easy_install or pip doesn't work: C:\>easy_install django install_dir D:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\ Searching for…
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python easy_install: specify directory housing required files

I'm trying to use easy_install to install MySQL-python. It fails almost immediately: _mysql.c:36:23: error: my_config.h: No such file or directory _mysql.c:38:19: error: mysql.h: No such file or directory _mysql.c:39:26: error: mysqld_error.h:…
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How to recover from pip freeze exception?

I am installing python 2.7 packages on an ubuntu 14 system and have run into a problem wherein "pip freeze" produces output like this ... $ pip freeze Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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Best practice for installing python modules from an arbitrary VCS repository

I'm newish to the python ecosystem, and have a question about module editing. I use a bunch of third-party modules, distributed on PyPi. Coming from a C and Java background, I love the ease of easy_install . This is a new, wonderful…
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Docker Centos 7 easy_install supervisor ssl issue behind proxy

For the last two days I am reading docker-container and trying to setup an Apache container. I am behind proxy. Below is the content of my Dockerfile. FROM centos:latest ENV http_proxy ENV https_proxy
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