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So I'm trying to install Aptus with easy_install-2.5 

sente@oslo:~$ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir=code/lib/ aptus
Searching for aptus
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/aptus/
Reading http://nedbatchelder.com/code/aptus
Best match: Aptus 2.0
Downloading http://nedbatchelder.com/code/aptus/code/aptus/Aptus-2.0.tar.gz
error: Can't download http://nedbatchelder.com/code/aptus/code/aptus/Aptus-2.0.tar.gz: 404 Not Found

the HTML on http://nedbatchelder.com/code/aptus has:

<a href="code/aptus/Aptus-2.0.tar.gz">Aptus-2.0.tar.gz</a>

which, last I knew, should point to http://nedbatchelder.com/code/aptus/code/aptus/Aptus-2.0.tar.gz ...making easy_install right.

All other browsers and command line utilities convert that link to http://nedbatchelder.com/code/aptus/Aptus-2.0.tar.gz though.

I'm curious why easy_install is behaving differently than browsers and command-line-tools.

I know pip is preferred to easy_intsall-2.5 but it's not on this old system and at this point I'm more curious about easy_install.

Thanks

sente
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Normally you'd be right about how that URL should be interpreted.

However, that page has a base tag, which changes the base used to convert relative URLs to absolute ones:

<base href='http://nedbatchelder.com'>

I assume easy_install just isn't looking for base tags.

John Flatness
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