Can't run easy_install even though setuptools is installed
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Fri Nov 8 22:19:16 EST 2019
On 09Nov2019 13:15, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>On 08Nov2019 09:14, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>>>Have you tried this?
>>> pip install onkyo-eiscp
>>>
>>I have now and it worked perfectly. So why do the install
>>instructions for onkyo-eiscp say do "easy_install onkyo-eiscp"? It
>>definitely means from the command line. I mean it's not even as if
>>"easy_install" is fewer letters to type than "pip install"! :-)
>
>Probably the instructions are old.
Indeed, go here:
https://github.com/miracle2k/onkyo-eiscp/blame/master/README.rst
you can see that that instruction is 7 years old. The commit message
says "Added PyPI installation instructions.", and that means "pip" these
days.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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