Installing Pip on Msys

Question

I have built a simple PyGTK app using Python 3.5.2 and Msys but I need some modules not in the default installation, and although I could use setup.py install to ge

Answer 1

The accepted answer installs a new Python exectuable with pip, but without GTK support.

In order to install pip support to the existing GTK Python executable, after encountering that error, we need to run:

python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip

(taken from this issue)

To summarize the steps required to install Pip support to the GTK-Python executable:

1. curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
2. python get-pip.py
3. (ignore the error from previous step)
4. python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall pip