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Expand Up @@ -128,15 +128,11 @@ Older versions of Python aren't available from the official repository. However,
Installing setuptools and pip
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While Python has an extensive standard library, the set of packages available from the Internet is even more extensive. In order to install them easily, we'll install the ``setuptools`` package and ``pip`` installer::

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While Python has an extensive standard library, the set of packages available from the Internet is even more extensive. In order to install them easily, we'll install the ``distribute`` package and then ``pip``::

$ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py
$ wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py
$ rm get-pip.py distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ sudo easy_install pip

Now, most Python packages can be installed using the ``pip`` command. For example, if we wanted to install Django::

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