Pip syntax for security

Question

I tried to run

$pip install --upgrade --allow-insecure setuptools

but it doesn't seem to work? is my syntax wrong?

this is on ubuntu 13.10 I need it - it’s not safe because I couldn’t get SSL certificates for the corporate proxy, so I always get an error certificate confirmation.

I get this error:

You must give at least one requirement to install (see "pip help install")

Answer 1

--allow-insecuretakes a packet as an argument. So you want:

$ pip install --upgrade --allow-insecure setuptools setuptools