Python - Is there any way to get pip without setuptools?

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Seems kinda weird that they'd require a package manager to install a package manager. I'm on Windows BTW.

Potential duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/4750806/95592 — Matthew Rankin, Feb 23 '11 at 23:02

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '11 at 19:33

Pip does require setuptools. Pip is really just a wrapper around setuptools to provide a better installer than easy_install and some nicer installation behaviors, plus uninstall, requirements files, etc. Even if you somehow got pip installed without setuptools it still won't run without it.

Vinay Sajip · Answer 2 · 2014-01-18T10:30:40.283

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You can use Distribute instead of setuptools: it installs a package called setuptools (it's a fork of the latter). You can install Distribute by downloading and running distribute_setup.py.

Update: As Gringo Suave says, the above is obsolete now - distribute and setuptools have now merged, and the merged project is called setuptools.

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answered Feb 23 '11 at 22:46

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Obsolete since Aug 2013. – Gringo Suave Jan 18 '14 at 03:36

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 23 '11 at 22:53

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You can download setuptools package as Windows installer from pypi/setuptools and then install pip or easy_install

answered Feb 23 '11 at 22:53

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Solution for Windows Users

If you installed ActivePython on Windows, then you have pip by default, as well as PyPM (ActiveState's package manager). The following excerpt is from What's included in ActivePython 2.7:

Additional Packages

PyPM: Python Package Manager to download and install binary packages. Also included: virtualenv, Distribute, pip, SQLAlchemy.

Solution for OS X Users

Not sure if setuptools is required when installing pip using homebrew. You might try that.

To install homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"

Then to install pip:

brew install pip

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Update: Homebrew no longer ships a `pip` formula. The recommended way to get it is via `easy_install pip`. The OS X System python includes Setuptools and the Homebrew Python packages include Distribute, so `easy_install` should always be available. – Sharpie Jun 05 '11 at 04:23

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 23 '11 at 22:29

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Sure, just grab the source from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/0.8.2#downloads

unpack it, cd into it, and run python setup.py install

answered Feb 23 '11 at 22:29

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I tried that but it won't work because setup.py contains this lovely line of code: from setuptools import setup – CamelCaseGuy Feb 23 '11 at 22:33

Python - Is there any way to get pip without setuptools?

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Solution for Windows Users

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