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Easy_install issues

Trying to install easy_install (IRONIC) and it is not wanting to cooperate with me. I am running the following command in terminal with python2.7

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | python
returns me -->
-bash: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py: No such file or directory

is it a simple fix?

Solution

  • This should work:

    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -s | python

    Unless redirected otherwise, cURL will output the received body to STDOUT, so you do not have to pass it -o - (which really should not do anything according to the docs). You should pass it -s in order to suppress the progress meter and any errors. Then pipe it directly into python. Given no other arguments, python will determine STDIN as the source of the script to execute.