[Tutor] pip install issues

[Mats Wichmann]

On 2/19/22 13:34, ShockTube wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Very new to python. Have programming background but in RPG, Bought a Python
> book, ran into a roadblock, reached out to publishers, who
> contacted author, who never bothered to reply. Reached out to Stack
> Overflow and they were of minimal help.
> 
> Trying to do a pip install and not successful. Have established that cannot
> run that command within an interpreter, Understand that. Answer from Stack
> Overflow talked of a Python Terminal to run command. Internet is of minimal
> help in explaining what that is. Somewhere between a Python environment and
> the interpreter is this magical place that will accept and process a pip
> install command, and anything similar.
> 
> That is what I need to know.
> 

It just means your operating system's "terminal" or "console".  It's a
shell like bash on Linux, or (since 2019 I think) the quite similar zsh
on Mac, or cmd.exe or PowerShell on Windows.  Since these days all three
of those systems are windowed environments, you also need something to
create a window on your screen to run that in.  On the Mac that's called
Terminal, on Linux some graphical environments call it that, some may
call it something slightly different.  On Windows cmd and powershell
open a terminal, there's also a newer application called Windows
Terminal you can use.

Wasn't anything more complex than that - there's no magical place, it's
just the system facility for typing at a command line.

You might benfit from looking for a video (youtube would be the obvious
place since it's so popular) that shows some initial Python steps.  You
could look for some videos by Corey Schafer just to give you one pointer
- I'm not making any claims they're the best out there or anything.
He's got one that's perhaps more than you want "Python Tutorial: pip -
an in-depth look at the package management system", but maybe even the
first few minutes of watching things run is more illustrative than
hundreds of words.