How to get setuptools and easy_install?

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I downloaded the ez_setup code from here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and ran it, but i don't think setuptools was properly installed. When i try to open an egg using easy_install i am getting a NameError. Any thoughts?

Here is the specific error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:...setup.py", line 223, in <module>
    easy_install eggsetup.py
NameError: name 'easy_install' is not defined

On Ubuntu, there is also `sudo apt install python3-setuptools` — Serge Stroobandt, Nov 10 '18 at 17:36

score 97 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 13 '21 at 01:40

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For linux versions(ubuntu/linux mint), you can always type this in the command prompt:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

This will automatically install easy_install.

edited Sep 13 '21 at 01:40

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answered Oct 30 '13 at 04:13

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I wish it was but this version is so old things will not install properly (like Buildout). – Wernight Dec 21 '13 at 02:22
After doing this, another install which depends on setuptools *still* tells me that setuptools isn't installed! – Michael Jun 26 '19 at 00:16

score 37 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '14 at 11:42

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For python3 on Ubuntu

 sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

answered Jul 31 '14 at 11:42

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score 12 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 24 '17 at 02:42

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please try to install the dependencie with pip, run this command:

sudo pip install -U setuptools

answered Oct 24 '17 at 02:42

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And see other links to help with pip install: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-pip-for-python/ and https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ – Wellington1993 Nov 28 '18 at 16:33

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 18 '21 at 12:46

2021 update:

easy_install no longer exists, it was replaced by pip install.
setuptools is built-in with Python 3. It's the package to read package files (wheels) and do things under the hood.
pip is built-in with Python 3.
venv is built-in with Python 3.

Some operating systems (Debian) like to split packages into smaller independent packages, you may have to sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-venv to get all the executables. Nonetheless, the tools are usually available even if the command isn't exposed, try calling python3 -m pip install ....

voted up for `sudo apt install python3-venv` – tirenweb Jan 13 '23 at 11:12 — tirenweb, Jan 13 '23 at 11:12

score 6 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 01 '19 at 10:10

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apt-get install python-setuptools python-pip

or

apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip

you'd also want to install the python packages...

edited Mar 01 '19 at 10:10

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answered Mar 12 '18 at 14:57

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 11 '13 at 13:50

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Give this link a try --> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

I'm assuming you're on Windows (could be wrong) but if you click the green Downloads button, it should take you to a table where you can choose to download a .exe version of setuptools appropriate for your version of Python. All that eggsetup stuff should be taken care of in the executable file.

Let me know if you need more help.

answered Apr 11 '13 at 13:50

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Pypi is great, but i need vanilla C-interpreted Python. Any ideas? – dopatraman Aug 07 '14 at 19:42
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@dopatraman, I think you're thinking of PyPy, not to be confused with Pypi. – ron rothman Jan 04 '15 at 18:38

Wernight · Answer 7 · 2014-04-29T21:36:18.673

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On Ubuntu until python-distribute is something newer than 0.7 I'd recommend:

$ wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | sudo python

See http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2013/07/08/new-setuptools-buildout.html

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answered Dec 21 '13 at 02:31

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link https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py is 404 – harschware Sep 17 '18 at 19:54
PyPa lives on GitHub now. See [my answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/56357346/943773) for install directions. – ryanjdillon May 29 '19 at 09:32

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 14:14

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For Amazon Linux AMI

yum install -y python-setuptools

answered Aug 25 '17 at 14:14

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 29 '19 at 09:30

If you are installing from distro packages, then this probably doesn't apply to your scenario...

recompile python

I have multiple versions of Python built from source installed, and I found I didn't have setuptools for version 3.5. It seems like I was missing the zlib libraries when I compiled 3.5, which subsequently made the setuptools install fail quietly (to me at least). Recompiling with the zlib libs installed fixed this for me.

install from GitHub

If you are for some reason missing setuptools and have Python compiled with all the necessary libs, you should be able to install it from the GitHub repo like this:

git clone https://github.com/pypa/setuptools.git
cd ./setuptools
python3.5 bootstrap.py
sudo python3.5 setup.py install

^This right here should be the top comment. Unfortunately, effective as of April 2018, `python-setuptools` no longer ships with `easy_install`, as per Matthias's update: https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-main-i386/python-setuptools_39.0.1-2_all.deb.html However, you can still compile from the source code yourself, and it does work. I just tried it with `sudo easy_install shodan`, and it ran successfully. — Kourosh Taheri-Golvarzi, Dec 08 '19 at 20:04

How to get setuptools and easy_install?

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recompile python

install from GitHub