Determining version of easy_install/setuptools

Question

I\'m trying to install couchapp, which uses easy_install - and is quite explicit in stating a particular version of easy_install/setuptools is needed: 0.6c6. I seem to have

Answer 1

This seems to get a lot of hits from google, so I thought I'd update for those folks. I was able to do:

easy_install --version

which produced the output

setuptools 3.4.3

I believe this only works for some (newer?) versions of setuptools