Unable to use easy_install to install Python modules

Question

I am trying to use easy_install to install a module called requests by doing

easy_install requests

This work

Answer 1

The following worked for me with Ubuntu 12.10 installing easy_install then pip:

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py