How to install Easy Install for Python

Date: 2007-01-10 | Modified: 2009-03-31 | Tags: install_setup, python | 4 Comments

Update 2009-03-31:

For current installation instructions on Windows and Cygwin, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools.
For a better alternative to Easy Install, see pip by Ian Bicking

How to install Easy Install on Ubuntu Linux

$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential

How to install Easy Install on Windows

Go to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-easy-install
Right click on "ez_setup.py" and save the file to "c:\temp"
Open a cmd.exe prompt
"cd c:\temp"
"python ez_setup.py"

How to install Easy Install on Cygwin

#1 etuleu commented on 2009-03-31:

thanks for the ubuntu installation!

#2 Ahmed commented on 2009-04-28:

Thanks This helped to install django on my Ubunto server!!

#3 thank you commented on 2011-02-04:

thank you.

is it not nearly farcical that the linux community has made it that a search for "how to install easyinstall" even possible?

#4 wing commented on 2011-10-12:

it really works, thank you!