<div dir="ltr">Here is what I did and the response:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">c:\></span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">c:\>ez_setup.py</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Downloading </span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><a href="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-2.0">https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-2.0</a>.</span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">2.tar.gz</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception </font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">occurred</font></span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">during a WebClient request."</font></span></div></div></blockquote>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">+ (new-object</font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('<a href="https://pypi.python.org/packages">https://pypi.python.org/packages</a> </font></span></div>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">...</font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">+ </font></span></div>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">~~~~~~</font></span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">~~~</font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000"> + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], </font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000">MethodInvocationException</font></span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font color="#ff0000"> + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException</font></span></div>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Traceback (most recent call last):</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 361, in <module></span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> sys.exit(main())</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 357, in main</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> downloader_factory=options.downloader_factory)</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 282, in </span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">download_setuptools</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> downloader(url, saveto)</span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 169, in </span></div></div>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">download_file_powershell</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> _clean_check(cmd, target)</span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 152, in _clean_check</span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> subprocess.check_call(cmd)</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"> raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['powershell', '-Command', </span></div>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">"(new-object</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile</span></div>
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<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">('<a href="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/se">https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/se</a></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">tuptools/setuptools-2.0.2.tar.gz', 'c:\\\\setuptools-2.0.2.tar.gz')"]' </span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">returned</span></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">non-zero exit status 1</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">c:\></span></div>
</div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br></span></div></blockquote></blockquote>The parts in red were in red in my terminal window. I am on windows 8.1 and I am brand new. Less than a week ago, I installed Distribute because someone on Django Google Groups recommended it to me, along with virtualenv and pip. Then today - well, last night since it was a few hours ago - I found out Distribute is deprecated. So I am trying to follow the uninstall instructions but this is what I got. Just for kicks I ran it again just now - same result. Please help. I took time off from work Thursday and Friday to get all this set up have been at this all weekend only to be stumped again. And no, I do not have Django up and running yet. Thank you. </div>