Hi Chris, Yep that got me closer. I found that using | sudo python2.7 was a bad command. So I changed over to | python2.7.
[root@myserver tmp]# wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py --no-check-certificate -O - | python2.7 --2014-12-01 12:57:07-- https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py Resolving bootstrap.pypa.io... 23.235.46.175 Connecting to bootstrap.pypa.io|23.235.46.175|:443... connected. WARNING: certificate common name `*.c.ssl.fastly.net' doesn't match requested host name `bootstrap.pypa.io'. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 10476 (10K) [text/x-python] Saving to: `STDOUT' 100%[=============================================================================================>] 10,476 --.-K/s in 0s 2014-12-01 12:57:07 (30.8 MB/s) - `-' saved [10476/10476] Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-7.0.zip Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 332, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 327, in main File "<stdin>", line 287, in download_setuptools File "<stdin>", line 224, in download_file_wget File "<stdin>", line 169, in _clean_check File "/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 542, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['wget', 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-7.0.zip', '--quiet', '--output-document', '/tmp/setuptools-7.0.zip']' returned non-zero exit status 1 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list