Installing setuptools
PIP is a dependence of setuptools. We need to install setuptools to use PIP. The following sections describe how we can install setuptools on different operating systems.
Installing setuptools for Windows
To download the setuptools executable, you have to go to the PyPI website at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools. Then, we need to click on Downloads and select the right version. In this book, we use Version 1.1, as shown in the following screenshot:
Installing setuptools for Linux
When using APT, we do not need to install setuptools. Indeed, APT will automatically install it before installing PIP.
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