Sunday, 16 June 2013

Installing PIP in Windows

This is one of the toughest things I have come across recently. Installing PIP on linux is altogether different thing. But I really had a hard time while installing PIP on windows. There are so many suggestion available on the internet that hardly worked for me. But the solution I found out is worth sharing.

What is PIP?

--> PIP is a package management system  which is used to install python software packages directly from your command line.

Steps to install PIP :
Download pip windows installer from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pip.
Download the ez_setup.py script and run it by downloading from  https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.7.2#windows
Run the script.
Once installation is complete, you will find an easy_install .exe program in your Python/scripts subdirectory.
Run the pip installer.
Add C:\Python27\Scripts to you path and you are good to go.

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