On 26 July 2017 at 15:52, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> .. the most robust option is to instead let a dedicated client tool like pip >> handle the problem: >> >> * pip install: retrieve *and* install a component >> * pip download: just retrieve the files without installing them locally > > This is a sound advise in general, but the specific issue here is how > to bootstrap virtualenv for python 2.7 on the systems with > missing/broken pip? Note that "ensurepip" may not be an option for a > user without root privileges. > > The bootstrap options offered at > <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/> don't work. > There is an open issue about this on Github: > <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1042>. A comment on that > issues suggests "curl > https://pypi.python.org/simple/virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz";, but that > does not work either.
I didn't get the impression that this was the problem the OP was hitting, and it's certainly not what I'd recommend for him, but you should be able to just clone the virtualenv repo and run ```python virtualenv.py``` to get started. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
