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Simplify the linux install instructions
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Kenneth Reitz
2011-12-29 22:16:34 -08:00
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Installing setuptools and pip
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While Python has an extensive standard library, the set of packages available from the Internet is even more extensive. In order to install them easily, we'll install the ``setuptools`` package and ``pip`` installer::
.. XXX: sudo?
While Python has an extensive standard library, the set of packages available from the Internet is even more extensive. In order to install them easily, we'll install the ``distribute`` package and then ``pip``::
$ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py
$ wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py
$ rm get-pip.py distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ sudo easy_install pip
Now, most Python packages can be installed using the ``pip`` command. For example, if we wanted to install Django::