#easy-install

How-to: easy_install will not connect through proxy #fix #it #dev

easy_install will not connect through proxy

I’m running Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit under VirtualBox, and it seems that everything except easy_install and pip can connect to the Internet. I have set and exported the http_proxy environment variable, and also set up the proxy address in every other location I’m aware of. Yet easy_install always returns “Network is unreachable”:

:~$ echo $http_proxy

How-to: installing wxpython via pip or easy_install #it #programming #development

installing wxpython via pip or easy_install

I am running into some problems installing wxpython using pip.

Here is my current output:

[myuserid]% sudo pip install wxpython Downloading/unpacking wxpython Downloading wxPython2.8-win64-devel-2.8.11.0-msvc9x64.tar.bz2 (7.2Mb): 7.2Mb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package wxpython Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 14, in…

Answer: How to run easy_install in cygwin? #programming #development #computers

How to run easy_install in cygwin?

I am trying to install some package in cygwin’s python, but I’m getting the following error: “easy_install: command not found”.

I have tried to run “easy_install.py”, the result is also “easy_install.py: command not found”. I have tried to search the whole of cygwin’s /usr tree for anything named with the prefix “easy”, none found.

Am I missing something?…

Fixed How to install lxml on Ubuntu #dev #it #asnwer

How to install lxml on Ubuntu

I’m having difficulty installing lxml with easy_install on Ubuntu 11.

When I type $ easy_install lxml I get:

Searching for lxml Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/ Reading http://codespeak.net/lxml Best match: lxml 2.3 Downloading http://lxml.de/files/lxml-2.3.tgzProcessing lxml-2.3.tgz Running lxml-2.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg dist-dir…

Fixed How do I remove packages installed with Python's easy_install? #dev #it #asnwer

How do I remove packages installed with Python’s easy_install?

Python’s easy_install makes installing new packages extremely convenient. However, as far as I can tell, it doesn’t implement the other common features of a dependency manager – listing and removing installed packages.

What is the best way of finding out what’s installed, and what is the preferred way of removing installed packages?…

Fixed Why use pip over easy_install? #dev #it #asnwer

Why use pip over easy_install?

A tweet reads:

Don’t use easy_install, unless you like stabbing yourself in the face. Use pip.

Why use pip over easy_install? Doesn’t the fault lie with PyPI and package authors mostly? If an author uploads crap source tarball (eg: missing files, no setup.py) to PyPI, then both pip and easy_install will fail. Other than cosmetic differences, why do Python people…

Fixed How to install pip on Windows? #dev #it #asnwer

How to install pip on Windows?

How should pip be installed on Windows?

Summary of the answers:

Depending on your Python version and whether you want to use it inside a virtual environment or not:

Starting from version Python 3.4, pip is already included in the regular install, see matth’s answer below. Check if the path to the Scriptsdirectory inside your Python installation directory is…