Update 13 years later: easy_install was removed from Python in January 2021. The python package manager is pip, it caches downloaded packages. 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 … Read more
In a setuptools context the dependency_links option should do what you need. According to setuptools documentation, this option accepts: the URLs of web pages that contain direct download links for example: setuptools.setup( # … dependency_links=[ “http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots/”, ], ) Important note regarding pip: Since its version 19.0, released on 2019-01-22, pip ignores the setuptools options dependency_links. … Read more
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.
As of version 9.0.1 pip will honor a new python_requires string, specifying the Python version required for installation, e.g, for example if one wishes to enforce minimum Python version of 3.3: setup( …, python_requires=”>=3.3″ ) See here for more details. See also this answer on SO.
starting with pip version 7.1.2 you can run pip uninstall -y <python package(s)> pip uninstall -y package1 package2 package3 or from file pip uninstall -y -r requirements.txt
This solution is suitable in cases where no virtualenv is available system wide and you can not become root to install virtualenv. When I set up a debian for python development or deployment I always apt-get install python-virtualenv. It is more convenient to have it around than to do the bootstrap pointed out below. But … Read more
Check your /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin for easy_install installations and remove any old script: sudo rm -f /usr/bin/easy_install* sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/easy_install* Download and run distribute: curl -O https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/tools/oodtsite.publisher/trunk/distribute_setup.py sudo python distribute_setup.py sudo rm distribute_setup.py Try again, and enjoy. E.g.: sudo easy_install pip
Yes you can. You can install a package from a tarball or a folder, on the web or your computer. For example: Install from tarball on web pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.3.0.tar.gz Install from local tarball wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.3.0.tar.gz pip install requests-2.3.0.tar.gz Install from local folder tar -zxvf requests-2.3.0.tar.gz cd requests-2.3.0 pip install . You can delete the … Read more
pip freeze will output a list of installed packages and their versions. It also allows you to write those packages to a file that can later be used to set up a new environment. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_freeze/#pip-freeze
The Tkinter library is built-in with every Python installation. And since you are on Windows, I believe you installed Python through the binaries on their website? If so, Then most probably you are typing the command wrong. It should be: import Tkinter as tk Note the capital T at the beginning of Tkinter. For Python … Read more