I'm not sure why your powershell is blowing up, but try running python ez_setup.py --insecure instead. On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Malik Rumi <malik.a.rumi@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is what I did and the response:

c:\>

c:\>ez_setup.py

Downloading

https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-2.0.

2.tar.gz

Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception

occurred

during a WebClient request."

At line:1 char:1

+ (new-object

System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://pypi.python.org/packages

...

+

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~

~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [],

MethodInvocationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 361, in <module>

sys.exit(main())

File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 357, in main

downloader_factory=options.downloader_factory)

File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 282, in

download_setuptools

downloader(url, saveto)

File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 169, in

download_file_powershell

_clean_check(cmd, target)

File "C:\Python27\Scripts\ez_setup.py", line 152, in _clean_check

subprocess.check_call(cmd)

File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call

raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['powershell', '-Command',

"(new-object

System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile

('https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/se

tuptools/setuptools-2.0.2.tar.gz', 'c:\\\\setuptools-2.0.2.tar.gz')"]'

returned

non-zero exit status 1

c:\>

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.

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