Issue with easy_install-2.7

Question

After installing easy_install and trying to use it to then install a python package it fails.

[root@server]# easy_install-2.7 pip
Searching for pip
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Download error on http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/: unknown url type: https -- Some packages may not be found!

I seem to get a redirect

curl -IL http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Retry-After: 0
Location: https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Content-Length: 0
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:28:40 GMT
Age: 0
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:28:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-PYPI-LAST-SERIAL: 835141
Cache-Control: max-age=86400, public
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Content-Length: 3933
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Age: 78434
Vary: Accept-Encoding

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Install the OpenSSL development package and then reinstall Python 2.7, in order to enable SSL (and hence HTTPS) support.