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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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How do I install an .egg file without easy_install in Windows?

I have Python 2.6 and I want to install easy _ install module. The problem is that the only available installation package of easy _ install for Python 2.6 is an .egg file! What should I do?
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Permission denied when trying to install easy_install on OSX

I'm trying to install easy_install and, well... see for yourself: sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg Processing setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg Copying setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg to /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages Adding setuptools 0.6c11 to…
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PIP install "error: package directory 'X' does not exist"

I am trying to install this package via PIP. It gives me the following error: error: package directory 'RTbatch' does not exist I find this weird, because the relevant setup.py does not mention any packages variable, but only py_modules. What's…
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SSL error installing pycurl after SSL is set

Just some information to start: I'm running Mac OS 10.7.5 I have curl 7.21.4 installed (came with dev tools I believe) I have python 2.7.1 I've been trying to get pycurl installed, but every time I try to run it, I get: ImportError: pycurl:…
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Eggs in path before PYTHONPATH environment variable

If I have packages installed from easy_install, the eggs are prepended to sys.path before the items in the PYTHONPATH variable. For example, if I have an egg package called foo installed as well as a package called foo in the current directory, and…
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Including global package into a virtualenv that has been created with --no-site-packages

I'd usually prefer to create virtualenvs with --no-site-packages option for more isolation, and also because default python global packages includes quite a lot of packages, and usually most of them are not needed. However I'd still want to keep a…
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Unable to use easy_install to install Python modules

I am trying to use easy_install to install a module called requests by doing easy_install requests This worked fine a week ago when I was using Python 2.6.5 but today I installed Python 2.7.2 and then tried to import requests in one of my scripts…
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python easy_install fails with SSL certificate error for all packages

Goal: I'm on RedHat 5 and trying to install the latest python and django for a web app. I successfully altinstalled python27 and easy_install, and wget with openssl. Problem: However now that I try to get anything from pypi.python.org I get the…
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How do I use easy_install and buildout when pypi is down?

I am using buildout to automatically download and setup the many dependencies of my Plone installation. buildout more or less uses easy_install to download and install a bunch of Python eggs. This usually works, but it doesn't work if any of the…
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How do prevent pip and easy_install from removing the temporary directories?

I need to debug some failures to install packages using pip and it seems that once I get the error pip is removing all the temporary files, preventing me from looking inside and finding what happened. The gist below contains the error that I get but…
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Python package install using pip or easy_install from repos

The simplest way to deal with python package installations, so far, to me, has been to check out the source from the source control system and then add a symbolic link in the python dist-packages folder. Clearly since source control provides the…
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detect pip in setup.py

Gist: What is the best way to detect in setup.py that we are being triggered by pip install package? Background: I have a package (bindings for a C-library), for which I provide eggs that include the library itself. In my readme/docs I note that…
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What is the alternative to using --process-dependency-links with pip

I am using Python 2.7. I am trying to pip install a repo (on internal github) that has a dependency on another repo (also on internal github). I tried several options but the one that worked was like this: (env)abc$ cat requirements.txt -e…
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PIP install a Python Package without a setup.py file?

I'm trying to figure out how I can install a python package that doesn't have a setup.py file with pip. (package in question is http://code.google.com/p/django-google-analytics/) Normally I would just checkout the code from the repo and symlink into…
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Installing Python's easy_install using ez_setup.py from behind a proxy server

Is there a way to install Python's easy_install using ez_setup.py when on a corporate network that uses a proxy server? Currently, I receive a connection timeout: Downloading…
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