The key is to tell easy_install where the package can be downloaded. In this particular case, it can be found at the url http://github.com/mtai/python-gearman/tarball/master. However, that link by itself won’t work, because easy_install can’t tell just by looking at the URL what it’s going to get. By changing it to http://github.com/mtai/python-gearman/tarball/master#egg=gearman-2.0.0beta instead, easy_install will be … 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 officially recommended way to install packages from a script is by calling pip’s command-line interface via a subprocess. Most other answers presented here are not supported by pip. Furthermore since pip v10, all code has been moved to pip._internal precisely in order to make it clear to users that programmatic use of pip is … Read more
Had to install the wheel package. Everything was up to date but still giving the error. pip install wheel then python setup.py bdist_wheel worked without issues.
Note: Avoid using python setup.py install use pip install . You need to remove all files manually, and also undo any other stuff that installation did manually. If you don’t know the list of all files, you can reinstall it with the –record option, and take a look at the list this produces. To record … Read more
From Ian Bicking’s own introduction to pip: pip was originally written to improve on easy_install in the following ways All packages are downloaded before installation. Partially-completed installation doesn’t occur as a result. Care is taken to present useful output on the console. The reasons for actions are kept track of. For instance, if a package … Read more
setup.py is a python file, the presence of which is an indication that the module/package you are about to install has likely been packaged and distributed with Distutils, which is the standard for distributing Python Modules. This allows you to easily install Python packages. Often it’s enough to write: $ pip install . pip will … Read more
TL;DR: pip install -Iv (i.e. pip install -Iv MySQL_python==1.2.2) What these options mean: -I stands for –ignore-installed which will ignore the installed packages, overwriting them. -v is for verbose. You can combine for even more verbosity (i.e. -vv) up to 3 times (e.g. -Ivvv). For more information, see pip install –help First, I see two … Read more