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I am trying to install some package in cygwin's python, but I'm getting the following error: "easy_install: command not found".
I have tried to run "easy_install.py", the result is also "easy_install.py: command not found". I have tried to search the whole of cygwin's /usr tree for anything named with the prefix "easy", none found.
Am I missing something? AFAIK, easy_install tool should be batteries included in python 2.5. Or is there a package that needs to be installed for that that I missed?
From cygwin prompt, do:
$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ python ez_setup.py
This will install easy_install on your cygwin.
Easy as py.
easy_install, make sure C:\Python27\Scripts (or similar) is in your PATH.
Jun 2, 2014 at 9:01
easy_install is part of the setuptools package. This package is provided by cygwin. To install it, rerun the cygwin setup[...].exe installer, and at the package selection step, tick "Python/python-setuptools".
The easy_install script has the version number attached. Instead of running easy_install, run easy_install-2.7 or easy_install-3.4 (or whatever x.y version of Python you have installed).
easy_install-<ver>. Turns out the cygwin packages suffix with the version number in case you have python 2 and python 3 installed.
python2-setuptools or python3-setuptools.
May 9, 2017 at 15:35
Easy Install is a python module (easy_install) bundled with setuptools, which can be found here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools . You must install setuptools by yourself.
If you need python with setuptools to work within cygwin than:
In addition to installing setuptools (as described in other answers), you also need to make sure C:\Python25\Scripts is in your PATH.