Where does easy_install install things?

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Blankman picture Blankman · Feb 7, 2011 · Viewed 17.7k times · Source

I want to install sphinx, and the website says to use:

easy_install -U Sphinx

What will happen when I install this command? will I get the source also? Where will it install?

Answer

ciferkey picture ciferkey · Feb 7, 2011

On Ubuntu I believe it installs to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ and I believe it install the egg for it. -U denotes upgrading it if its already installed

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