Hello, From the documentation, unless the --upgrade option is used (or, I suppose, a version specifier given), easy_install is supposed to be content with distributions already installed on sys.path or site-packages. But is it true also when an egg distribution is available for this same package? My problem: I have a dependency on a package xxx which is already installed (as a subdirectory of site-packages). If I put "install_requires = ['xxx']" in some setup.py, the egg will be downloaded. If I try "easy_install xxx" directly, this will force the egg distribution, too. I don't want the egg version because it does not work, import fails on "zipimport.ZipImportError: can't find module 'xxx'" (yet unzipping the egg the xxx packages is there, if anyone has an idea of what may be missing...). Also, if I remove the installed egg to used the existing distribution of xxx, my installed package now works well, except the script installed via entry_points, which seem to expect an egg in any case. So I cannot just "correct" the distribution by removing the wrong egg. The current solution I have found is not formally declare the dependency and advise to install xxx before... Is this the expected behaviour? I'm using python 2.5.1, windows xp, setuptools 0.6c7. Thanks for any help.