Howto install python easy_install on ubuntu 11.10

easy_install will help installing python modules and here is how we can install it on Ubuntu 11.10

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install python-setuptools
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  python-pkg-resources
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  python-distribute python-distribute-doc
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  python-setuptools
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  python-pkg-resources
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Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main python-pkg-resources all 0.6.16-1ubuntu0.1 [62.7 kB]
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(Reading database ... 52429 files and directories currently installed.)
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So how to use easy_install? We are going to install python module paste to illustrate the idea.


root@ubuntu:~# easy_install -U paste
Searching for paste
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/paste/
Reading http://pythonpaste.org
Best match: Paste 1.7.5.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/Paste/Paste-1.7.5.1.tar.gz#md5=7ea5fabed7dca48eb46dc613c4b6c4ed
Processing Paste-1.7.5.1.tar.gz
Running Paste-1.7.5.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-I0cKPn/Paste-1.7.5.1/egg-dist-tmp-cdqwYD
warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build/_sources'
Adding Paste 1.7.5.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Paste-1.7.5.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for paste
Finished processing dependencies for paste