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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Find all packages installed with easy_install/pip?

Is there a way to find all Python PyPI packages that were installed with easy_install or pip? I mean, excluding everything that was/is installed with the distributions tools (in this case apt-get on Debian).
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ImportError: No module named PIL

I use this command in the shell to install PIL: easy_install PIL then I run python and type this: import PIL. But I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named PIL I've…
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What's the difference between dist-packages and site-packages?

I'm a bit miffed by the python package installation process. Specifically, what's the difference between packages installed in the dist-packages directory and the site-packages directory?
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How to install packages offline?

What's the best way to download a python package and its dependencies from pypi for offline installation on another machine? Is there any easy way to do this with pip or easy_install? I'm trying to install the requests library on a FreeBSD box that…
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ImportError: No module named Crypto.Cipher

When I try to run app.py (Python 3.3, PyCrypto 2.6) my virtualenv keeps returning the error listed above. My import statement is just from Crypto.Cipher import AES. I looked for duplicates and you might say that there are some, but I tried the…
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Bypass confirmation prompt for pip uninstall

I'm trying to uninstall all django packages in my superuser environment to ensure that all my webapp dependencies are installed to my virtualenv. sudo su sudo pip freeze | grep -E '^django-' | xargs pip -q uninstall But pip wants to confirm every…
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Can I use `pip` instead of `easy_install` for `python setup.py install` dependency resolution?

python setup.py install will automatically install packages listed in requires=[] using easy_install. How do I get it to use pip instead?
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How to pip or easy_install tkinter on Windows

IDLE is throwing errors that and says tkinter can't be imported. Is there a simple way to install tkinter via pip or easy_install? There seem to be a lot of package names flying around for this... This and other assorted variations with tkinter-pypy…
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Installing SetupTools on 64-bit Windows

I'm running Python 2.7 on Windows 7 64-bit, and when I run the installer for setuptools it tells me that Python 2.7 is not installed. The specific error message is: `Python Version 2.7 required which was not found in the registry` My installed…
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pip issue installing almost any library

I have a difficult time using pip to install almost anything. I'm new to coding, so I thought maybe this is something I've been doing wrong and have opted out to easy_install to get most of what I needed done, which has generally worked. However,…
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What is the official "preferred" way to install pip and virtualenv systemwide?

Is it this, which people seem to recommend most often: $ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools $ sudo easy_install pip $ sudo pip install virtualenv Or this, which I got from http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html: $ curl -O…
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Install particular version with easy_install

I'm trying to install lxml. I've had a look at the website, and version 2.2.8 looked reasonable to me but when I did easy_install lxml, it installed version 2.3.beta1 which is not really what I want I presume. What is the best way to fix this and…
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