Determining version of easy_install/setuptools

python setuptools easy-install
pat picture pat · Dec 24, 2009 · Viewed 42.1k times · Source

I'm trying to install couchapp, which uses easy_install - and is quite explicit in stating a particular version of easy_install/setuptools is needed: 0.6c6. I seem to have easy_install already on my Mac, but there's no command-line arguments to check the version. Instead of just installing a new version over the top, I'd like to see whether it's necessary first.

So: Any pointers on how I can see what version of setuptools/easy_install I have installed on my machine?

I'm not a Python developer, so I'm assuming this is a simple question. However, I've not found anything via Google or here on SOF.

Answer

ErlVolton picture ErlVolton · Apr 9, 2014

This seems to get a lot of hits from google, so I thought I'd update for those folks. I was able to do:

easy_install --version

which produced the output

setuptools 3.4.3

I believe this only works for some (newer?) versions of setuptools

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