Installing Packages

This webpage explains how to install third-party Python packages using the package manager pip. It then explains how to install the BeautifulSoup package needed for HW3.

Ubuntu

From the command line, type:

 sudo apt-get install python-pip

Once that finishes installing, type 

 sudo pip install BeautifulSoup

Windows

Download and install Distribute.

Then download and install pip.

Once that is finished, open up a command line prompt by clicking the Start button, then in the "Search programs and files" bar, type "cmd".

Then type the following:

 cd c:\Python27\Scripts
 pip install BeautifulSoup

Then the next time you start the Python command line, type "import BeautifulSoup" to verify everything worked.

Mac

Open up a terminal window, like the Terminal program in the dropdown menu Finder > Go > Utilities > Terminal. Type the following (in this order):

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.3.tar.gz
tar xzf pip-1.3.tar.gz

cd pip-1.3
sudo python setup.py install

sudo pip install BeautifulSoup

If you have trouble with the installation, check to make sure you have an updated version of Python.