From 3a65e06445ab95d02f4ad755fd060f4cc3e97b19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Behrens Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:13:59 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify the linux install instructions and fix formatting --- docs/starting/installation.rst | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/starting/installation.rst b/docs/starting/installation.rst index 2fa0334..69b391c 100644 --- a/docs/starting/installation.rst +++ b/docs/starting/installation.rst @@ -128,15 +128,11 @@ Older versions of Python aren't available from the official repository. However, Installing setuptools and pip ----------------------------- -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::