What am I supposed to do with an egg?!

[F. GEIGER]

<johnzenger at gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Type "sudo easy_install myeggfile.egg."

Sorry for not being clear. I did exec easy_install - no errors so far. But 
the egg was still there. I'd expected, that it was converted into .py-files 
somehow, which could be imported by my modules.

Kind regards
Morpheus

>
> If that gives you an error, then you don't have easy_install installed.
> Install it this way:
>
> sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
>
> On Dec 19, 3:44 pm, Morpheus <morph... at spam.no> wrote:
>> On Windows I'm used to install packages by setup.py install. So did I 
>> with
>> Fibranet nanothreads - a few seconds and it was installed.
>>
>> On Linux (ubuntu 6.06) all I could get at is an egg file. I found out 
>> that
>> I have to exec easy_install, which didn't much help here (seems to me, at
>> least - sorry, Linux newbie).
>>
>> So, what am I supposed to do here now?
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Morpheus
>