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After following this article: How do I install pip on Windows? on my Windows system using Enthought Canopy 64 Bit system, I cannot get pip or easy_install to work due to error: pip install requests failed to create process I tried re-installing setuptools, running cmd prompt as admin without any effect. When I encountered this, it was because I'd manually renamed the directory python was in. This meant that both setuptools and pip had to be reinstalled. Or, I had to manually rename the python directory to what it had been previously. It will help after changing the PATH to python in

I tried following the instructions from this answer but easy_install-2.6 could not find pip : >sudo easy_install-2.6 pip Processing pip error: Not a recognized archive type: pip How do I install pip for python 2.6? My root need for pip for 2.6 is explained in this thread . Just follow the instructions here : Securely download get-pip.py . In the directory you saved get-pip.py , run sudo python2.6 get-pip.py and you'll be all set. This will install pip for Python 2.6, and won't touch your version 2.7 installation. Find below the steps to install pip on Python 2.6.X: $ curl https://bootstrap

Is there a way to configure easy_install to avoid having to download the files again when an installation fails? ionelmc pip ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/ ) is a drop-in replacement for the easy_install tool and can do that. Just run easy_install pip and set an environment variable PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE to the path you want pip to store the files. Note that the cache won't work with dependencies that checkout from a source code repository (like svn/git/hg/bzr). Then use pip install instead of easy_install Here is my solution using pip, managing even installation of binary packages and usable

I have easy_install and pip . I had many errors on my Linux Mint 12 , I just re-installed it and I want to install everything from scratch again. This is one of the errors that I had. I received an interesting answer there: Stop using su and sudo to run virtualenv. You need to run virtualenv as your normal user. You have created the virtualenv with sudo which is why you are getting these errors. So how to install virtualenv without using sudo ? Can i use pip or easy_install without using sudo ? Or is there another way? itsafire This solution is suitable in cases where no virtualenv is

Can I download and install Python modules from PyPi strictly inside a script, without using a shell at all ? I use a non-standard Python environment, Autodesk Maya's Python interpreter. This does not come with "easy_install," and there is no "shell," only a python script interpreter invoked by the main Maya executable. Copying and pasting ez_setup.py's contents into the script editor window and running it correctly installs an easy_install somewhere into Maya's directory, but the script incorrectly records the Python interpreter as "...maya.exe" instead of "...mayapy.exe" Furthermore, using