<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 13:23, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sam.Cable@kirtland.af.mil">Sam.Cable@kirtland.af.mil</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Rather new to python here, and completely new to IPython, so your patience is appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
I want to install IPython on a Linux system, but don’t have easy_install. Installing setuptools has proven to be difficult for a number of reasons I won’t go into. So I want to install IPython from source instead. I follow the instructions on the web page and I get the error:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Traceback (most recent call last):<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> File "setup.py", line 7, in <module><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
from setup3 import main<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> File "/home/blah/python3.2.2/ipython-0.12/setup3.py", line 3, in <module><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> from setuptools import setup<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ImportError: No module named setuptools<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So, even when I follow the directions for set up without setuptools, I need setuptools! Any help is appreciated. Thanks.</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Python 3, setuptools is a dependency at the moment.</div><div><br></div><div>setuptools is not a dependency on Python 2.X.</div><div> </div><div>-MinRK</div>
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