On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> Maybe this is something which has changed in newer versions of pip? >> I've got 1.1 (and python 2.7.3). I'm pretty sure both of these are what >> came with Ubuntu Precise. > > It’s heavily outdated, and that IS the cause of your problem. pip 1.5 > accepts such paths just fine. Please upgrade your pip.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/python-pip says it's shipping 1.0.1, even older. You get 1.1 with Quantal: http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/python-pip and (unsurprisingly) newer versions with newer Ubuntus. Debian's just as bad, incidentally. On Wheezy (current stable), Debian ships 1.1, though Jessie (current testing) has 1.4.1. But neither Ubuntu Trusty nor Debian Sid (unreleased versions of each) ships 1.5. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
