easy_install

[Colin J. Williams]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> hall.jeff at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> For the life of me I can not figure out how to get easy_install to
>> work. The syntax displayed on the web page does not appear to work
>> properly.
>>
>> easy_install c:\MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg
> 
> It usually works for me - so what does "not appear to work properly"
> actually mean?
> 
> Diez

I updated my easy_install, used the 
scripts directory, dropped the "c:\" and 
it gave the response below for me:

C:\Documents and 
Settings\cjw\Desktop>c:\Python25\scripts\easy_install 
  MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg
Searching for 
MySQL-python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg
Reading 
http://pypi.python.org/simple/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg/
Reading 
http://pypi.python.org/simple/MySQL-python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg/
Couldn't find index page for 
'MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg' 
(maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may 
take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
No local packages or download links 
found for MySQL-python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg
error: Could not find suitable 
distribution for 
Requirement.parse('MySQL-python-1.2.2-py2.4-win32.egg')

C:\Documents and Settings\cjw\Desktop>

I hope that this is of some help.

Colin W.