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  Re: why i can't install  ez_setup Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-29 02:10 +0100
    Re: why i can't install  ez_setup wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-06-28 23:58 -0700

#73719 — Re: why i can't install ez_setup

On 29/06/2014 00:50, Peter Tomcsanyi wrote:
> I cannot answer the original question.
>
> But: do you need ez_setup at all?
>  From your text it's clear that you are using Python on Windows.
>
> Therefore I suggest you to forget about the obscure Python installation
> tools and look at:
> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
> Find there the Python modules that you want to install. Then just
> download the proper windows installers (for the module and all its
> prerequisites) and install the modules' binaries in the way which is
> usual in Windows.
>
> Or are you trying to install a package that is not listed on the
> above-mentioned site?
>
> Peter
>

I don't consider that particularly sound adice.  easy_install is hardly 
an "obscure Python installation tool".  If you get pip it will look 
after the dependancies for you.  The site you're referenced is 
unofficial.  FWIW I've used it and never had a problem, but it's 
certainly a case of "buyer beware".

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#73723

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What is wrong in having a ".msi" or ".exe" or a ".xxx' or tool
which is an autoinstalling tool you can distribute on a usb
stick or the like witout having an internet connection?

Why should I have to install a software to be able to install
a software? Same kind of a recursive absurdity.

How many new installers are provided? Should I expect a new
one in six months?

What about a new installer, which requires a previous intaller
to be installed?

And so on.

I miserably failed to install pip. The only thing I succeed
to find (google) is gazillion of people facing the same problem,
assuming an installer is not buggy.

Yes I know, R(ead)TFM, read the contradicting instructions you
may find on the web, install this, install that, configure this,
configure that, just open a console and ...
Yes, always *just* ...

Sometimes I have the feeling, all this free software (there
are exceptions) is here, for people who have time to waste 
and not for people who will work.

Slightly different.

I'm not (never really been) a linux guy. As far as I know the
repositories are different for every variants of a distro
(eg Ubuntu x, y, z).
In Python, there is a single repo supposed to satisfy
all quasi incompatible Python versions! They are!

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