pip

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NAME
       pip - install Python packages

SYNOPSIS
       pip [command] [options]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the pip command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       pip is an alternative Python package installer. It performs the same
       basic job as easy_install, but with some extra features. It can work
       with version control repositories (currently only Git, Mercurial, and
       Bazaar repositories), logs output extensively, and prevents partial
       installs by downloading all requirements before starting installation.

       It has some disadvantages when compared to easy_install. It does not
       use egg files, although it does preserve egg metadata. Some setuptools
       features are not yet supported, and some custom setup.py features won´t
       work.

       pip is designed to work with virtualenv, in that it can be given the
       path to a virtualenv environment (with -E or --environment) and it will
       know to install to that environment instead of the system locations.

COMMANDS
       The command comes before any options. The following commands are
       recognized:

       help
           Show the help text.

       bundle
           Create "bundles" which can be used by pip to install the group of
           Python packages in multiple places.

       freeze
           Write the current list of installed packages to a requirements
           file, which can be used by pip to reinstall the same set of
           packages.

       install
           Install packages.

       unzip
           Unzip an individual package.

       zip
           Zip an individual package.

OPTIONS
       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
       options starting with two dashes (`-´). A summary of options is
       included below.

       -h --help
           Show summary of options.

       --version
           Show version of program.

       -v --verbose
           Be more verbose.

       -q --quiet
           Be less verbose; suppress unimportant output.

       -E --environment
           When using pip with a virtual environment created by virtualenv,
           use this option to specify either the path to the environment or
           the path to its Python interpreter.

       --log
           Output a log file describing the actions taken to the specified
           file.

       --proxy
           Have pip use a proxy server to access sites. This can be specified
           using "user:password@proxy.server:port" notation. If the password
           is left out, pip will ask for it.

       --timeout
           Set the timeout for connecting to download sites, in seconds. This
           defaults to 15 seconds if not given.

SEE ALSO
       The upstream documentation, stored in /usr/share/doc/python-pip.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Jeff Licquia licquia@debian.org for the
       Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the
       Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
       can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

COPYRIGHT
       CopyrightCopyright © 2009 Jeff Licquia



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