What’s the best way to download a python package and it’s 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 is not connected to the internet. 12 Answers 12
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? 3 Answers 3
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 “<console>”, line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named PIL I’ve never had such problem, what do you think? 29 Answers 29
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). 18 Answers 18
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.tgz Processing lxml-2.3.tgz Running lxml-2.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg –dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-7UdQOZ/lxml-2.3/egg-dist-tmp-GacQGy Building lxml version 2.3. Building without Cython. ERROR: /bin/sh: xslt-config: not found ** make sure the … Read more
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? Are there any … Read more
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 … Read more
pip is a replacement for easy_install. But should I install pip using easy_install on Windows? Is there a better way? 40 Python 2.7.9+ and 3.4+ Good news! Python 3.4 (released March 2014) and Python 2.7.9 (released December 2014) ship with Pip. This is the best feature of any Python release. It makes the community’s wealth … Read more
