Install Pip-3.2 on Cygwin

Question

I have Python 3 installed on Cygwin. However, I cannot install Python 3 packages through pip . Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

1) When installing cygwin, make sure you install python / python-setuptools from the list. This will install the "easy_install" package.

2) Enter the following command:

 easy_install-ab pip 

You should replace ab with your python version, which may be 2.7 or 3.4 or something else.

Answer 2

If you have more than one python installation, you need to install pip (and possibly also setuptools) for each installation separately.
To do this, you can first download ez_setup.py and run it with python3:

 /usr/bin/python3 ez_setup.py 

This should install setuptools as well as create an easy_install script for your python version, for example. /usr/bin/easy_install-3.2 , which you can use to install pip:

 /usr/bin/easy_install-3.2 pip 

This will install pip in the python3 package directory and again create a script /usr/bin/pip-3.2 which you can use to install packages for this version of python.

Alternatively, you can follow the installation instructions from here and here .

Answer 3

I think the alternative installation instructions related to mata are simple:

To install pip, safely download get-pip.py .

Then run the following (which may require administrator access):

 python get-pip.py 

Answer 4

Since the OP specifically talks about Python3, I think we need to point out that just in case the user already has Python2 installed, which is very likely.

 # If you don't have Python3 already, use apt-cyg: apt-cyg install python3 # First update pip, pip2 pip2 install --upgrade pip # Install pip3: python3 -m ensurepip # Finally update pip3: pip3 install --upgrade pip $ pip3 -V pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages (python 3.4) 

PS. There are several apt-cyg forks , you will like it.