I'm completely new at this and needed a bit of help.
I've got a hosted server running Linux Redhat 6 and using Python 2.7 (which has just been set as the default from Python 2.6) located at /usr/local/bin/python2.7
I'm trying to setup easy_install on the server, but I'm not sure if i'm doing it correctly, on the bash screen i'm running: sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
But it keeps asking for a sudo password, which i'm assuming is my normal admin password that i've used to login via SSH? I've used my admin password and my root password which both don't seem to work, can any one help? Maybe it's an over sight from my side (being a newbie). Thanks Gareth
A couple of things:
sudo
password is likely the password for the user account on your server, however your user account may not have sudo
access. Does the command provide any output?apt-get install
command is Debian/Ubuntu specific. The equivalent you are looking for is yum install
yum
uses Python 2.6 and any python package you install from the yum
repository will be installed for this version of python and not available to python 2.7. To get around this you have a couple of options:
pythonbrew
which allows you to switch python interpreters on your system (you still wont be able to yum install python-setuptools
but allows you to easily switch between Python 2.6/2.7/3.3)setuptools
website wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python
to install as long as python
gives you python2.7easy_install pip
to get pip
installed on your system (hopefully for python 2.7)virtualenv
's - they get round all your sudo
problems.