Installing Pip-3.2 on Cygwin

Question

I have Python 3 installed on Cygwin. However, I am unable to install Python 3 packages via pip. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

If you have more than one python installation, then you need to install pip (and probably also setuptools) for each installation separately.
To do so, you can first download ez_setup.py and run it with python3:

/usr/bin/python3 ez_setup.py

That should install setuptools, and also create an easy_install script for your python version, e.g. /usr/bin/easy_install-3.2, which you can use to install pip:

/usr/bin/easy_install-3.2 pip

This will install pip into your python3 site packages directory, and again create a script /usr/bin/pip-3.2, which you can use to install packages for this python version.

Alternatively you can follow the install instructions from here and here.