Installing Pip-3.2 on Cygwin

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David Y. Stephenson picture David Y. Stephenson · Sep 5, 2013 · Viewed 81.1k times · Source

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

moovon picture moovon · Aug 15, 2015

1)While installing cygwin, make sure you install the python/python-setuptools from the list. This will install "easy_install" package.

2) Type the following command: 

easy_install-a.b pip

You must replace a.b with your python version which can be 2.7 or 3.4 or whatever else.

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