Sometimes I am forced to use windows, and for some reason (although I can’t blame anyone not giving a crap) there is no easy_install for Python 2.6 on Windows. So I followed these instructions from monkut on the Stack Overflow forum:
For installing setuptools for 2.6 download “ez_setup.py” from:
http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/branches/setuptools-0.6/#egg=setuptools-dev06
And run it [In the terminal, navigate to the folder where the ez_setup.py file downloaded to and type
python ez_setup.py]. setuptools should be installed. This will place easy_install in your python26/Scripts directory, make sure this is in your PATH, and then you should be able to use easy_install.
This worked great. In order to add python26/Scripts to your Windows path:
- Right click on the ‘My Computer’ icon on your desktop and select ‘Properties’
- Select the ‘Advanced’ tab, and then select ‘Environment Variables’
- Under ‘System Variables’ select the variable ‘Path’ and click ‘Edit’
- At the end of the line in ‘Variable value:’ add a semicolon [;] and write ‘C:\python26\Scripts’
- Select ‘OK’ a couple times, restart terminal, and you should be able to type in ‘easy_install –help’ and receive a big ‘ol mess of help