Can't run easy_install even though setuptools is installed

[Cameron Simpson]

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>