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After installing Python 2.7 on Windows XP, then manually setting the %PATH% to python.exe (why won't the python installer do this?), then installing setuptools 0.6c11 (why doesn't the python installer do this?), then manually setting the %PATH% to easy_install.exe (why doesn't the installer do this?), I finally tried to install a python package with easy_install , but easy_install failed when it couldn't install the pywin32 package, which is a dependency. How can I make easy_install work properly on Windows XP? The failure follows: C:\>easy_install winpexpect Searching for winpexpect Best

This question already has an answer here: pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found 20 answers I'm trying to install the mysql bindings in a virtualenv. I'd prefer to use pip or easy_install. pip gives me the following error: File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,)) EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found easy_install either gets a 404 from sourceforge or gives me a very similar error. Does anyone know how to get around this in a virtualenv? I'm also trying to setup MySQL bindings in a

So I found Help installing cx_Oracle but am still stuck. I downloaded the latest instantclient from oracle, and set ORACLE_HOME to the location of the extracted files (both direct and with a bin folder between the ORACLE_HOME value and the files), but easy_install is popping an error when running setup.py saying it can't locate the Oracle include files. I did notice that only the 11g dll is in the folder, do I need all 3 drivers present for setup to complete? If so, where do I even get them? Christian Witts Honestly it is a hell of a lot easier to install cx_Oracle from one of the binary

I am trying to install pip but currently unable to. I navigate to the pip folder and python setup.py install Everything seems to go fine until the very end: Extracting pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg to /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages Adding pip 0.8.2 to easy-install.pth file Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin error: /usr/local/bin/pip: Permission denied I've also tried easy_install . and attempted to refer to the related thread with no luck: Python install uninstall easy_install Any ideas? Looks like you're on an Linux/Unix box and you're not root ... which means you don't have permission to put

My 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 aren't working. pip install python-tk I'm on Windows with Python 2.7 and can't apt-get . Thanks. LotusUNSW Well i can see two solutions here: 1) Follow the Docs-Tkinter install for Python ( for Windows ): Tkinter (and, since Python 3.1, ttk) are included with all standard Python distributions. It is important that you use a version of Python