Hello everbody,

I forked and cloned the repo on bitbucket and am now trying to install yt using the install script. Unfortunately I keep running into trouble:

The installation runs fine until:

Installing PNG

Installing FreeType2

Installing SQLite3

Installing Python.  This may take a while, but don't worry.  yt loves you.

Installing mercurial-3.1

Setting YT_DIR=/home/beckmann/soft/yt

Installing distribute

at which point it exits with 

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        FAILURE REPORT:

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    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)

  File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open

    response = self._open(req, data)

  File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 427, in _open

    'unknown_open', req)

  File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain

    result = func(*args)

  File "/home/beckmann/soft/yt/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1247, in unknown_open

    raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)

urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>

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I have tried installing distribute manually but I immediately run into the same error with the next package so that is not a solution.

This website suggests that the issue is that SSL is not supported: http://www.xinotes.net/notes/note/628/ and I need to recompile python with SSL? How do I do that in this context? Is there another solution? I do not have root access on this machine. 

Thank you,

Ricarda