On May 13, 11:29 pm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I tried to install easy_install (This is on windows) > > I downloaded the executable and ran it. It claimed to have done its > > job. > > > But now when I type easy_install at a cmd prompt I get > > easy_install is not a command... > > > [I guess I am a perennial noob to windows, never being able to > > comprehend the PATH lookup logic (or lack of it)] > > > Another related question: I gather that easy_install is being > > superseded by pypi or some such but I cant find the link... > > easy_install is part of the setuptools or distribute package. I > assume that one of these is what you installed. > > On Windows, the easy_install command is installed into your Python > Scripts directory, which should be something like > "C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts" or "C:\Python25\Scripts" depending on your > Python version. You just need to find that directory and add it to > your PATH. > > PyPI is the Python package index. It's a website athttp://pypi.python.org/-- > not a replacement for setuptools or > easy_install, which uses it to look up package metadata. Setuptools > is supposed to be superseded by distribute, which may be what you > heard.
It seems to be something called pip -- Easy_install and plain setup.py install cant uninstall whereas pip can. But to install pip you have to do easy_install pip. O well :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
