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Standard python distutils provides a '--user' option which lets me install a package as a limited user, like this: python setup.py install --user Is there an equivalent for easy_install and pip ? For pip , see User Installs for details, but basically, it's just what you'd expect: pip install --user Foo It's a bit trickier for easy_install . As Ned Deily points out, if you can rely on distribute rather than setuptools , and 0.6.11 or later, you can just use --user the same as pip . But if you need to work with setuptools , or older distribute … see Custom Installation Locations for details (and

I have two versions of python on my mac: One preinstalled by Apple in /usr/bin One from python.org in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6 easy_install always installs to /usr/bin for some ununderstanable reason So I explicitly now install easy_install in: sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg --install-dir=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages Now I want to easy_install pip AND ....: Searching for pip Best match: pip 0.8 Processing pip-0.8-py2.6.egg pip 0.8 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin

I have virtualenv with --no-site-packages option. I'm using scrapy in it. Scrapy uses libxml2 by import libxml2 . How to install libxml2 in virtualenv using pip or easy_install ? pip install ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/libxml2-python-2.6.9.tar.gz libxml2 is a C library not a python package so you cannot use Pip to install it. Normally it is already installed on almost every Linux distro out there. If you need to install it it's just sudo apt-get install libxml2 If for some reason you absolutely need to have a local install you will need to grab and install the .deb package or the RPM.

I installed psycopg2 in virtualenv using easy_install psycopg2 . I did not see any errors and looks like installation went fine.. there is an egg file created in the site-packages dir for psycopg2.. but when I run import psycopg2 in the interpreter, I am getting following error.. any clue? How can I fix it.. any other way to install psycopg2 in virtualenv.. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "build\bdist.win32\egg\psycopg2\__init__.py", line 69, in <module> File "build\bdist.win32\egg\psycopg2\_psycopg.py", line 7, in <module> File "build\bdist.win32

I am having trouble installing numpy on an Amazon EC2 server. I have tried using easy_install, pip, pip inside a virtual env, pip inside another virtual env using python 2.7... Every time I try, it fails with the error: gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1) , and then further down the line I get a bunch of python errors, with easy_install I get: ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils , and with pip I get: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 72: ordinal not in range(128) . The EC2 instance is running kernel 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64. Has

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 http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\jsears\python\ez_setup.py", line 278, in <module> main(sys.argv[1:]) File "C:\jsears\python\ez_setup.py", line 210, in main egg = download_setuptools(version, delay=0) File "C:\jsears\python\ez_setup.py", line 158, in download_setuptools src = urllib2.urlopen(url) File "C:\jsears\Python27\lib\urllib2.py