Question

I’ve been using python for a while but I can’t remember how I used to install modules, I haven’t needed to in forever. I recently reinstalled ubuntu so now I need to.

Firstly, I try to run setup.py and get this:

nicholas@nicholas-K53E:~$ python setup.py install
python: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I tried using synaptic to install BeautifulSoup but it didn’t work either and python tells me there’s no modules named that.

Some forums said that it had to do with being in the wrong working directory so I cd’d into my Python26 folder and tried to run python ./setup.py install from there and it still didn’t work. I’m not sure what the deal is.

Any guidance?

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

OR

sudo aptitude install python-setuptools

Then just run:

sudo easy_install <module>

e.g.

sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup