How do I stop setup.py from installing a package as an egg? Or even better, how do I easy_install from installing a package as an egg?
sudo python setup.py install
The reason being that PyDev is rather picky about packages in egg format... The package I am interested in at the moment is boto.
Update: I found the brute force way of doing it:
sudo easy_install -m boto
cd path/to/boto-xyz.egg
sudo mv boto ..
sudo rm -rf boto-xyz.egg
2 Answers
Solution 1:
I feel like I'm missing something subtle or important (encountering this page years after the question was asked and not finding a satisfying answer) however the following works fine for me:
python setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --root=/
Compressed *.egg files are an invention of setuptools (I'm not a big fan of them although I understand why they were created) and because the setup.py script is using (and may require) setuptools, the package ends up being installed as a compressed *.egg file.
