[Distutils] Troubles with pip

Hi, I'm very new to this python community. This system is a FedoraCore 32 x86_64 (Rawhide) freshly installed. I was reading about beautifulsoup... and was directed to use pip "pip install beautifulsoup4". I got nothing. strace -xvfp shows that pip is in (hung?) in the recvfrom(...) system cal

[Distutils] Re: Troubles with pip

By default, the only site that pip fetches data from is , which is currently up. Are you perhaps behind a firewall that blocks access to PyPI? Can you access pypi.org from the command line of your system (e.g., with curl or wget)? -- John Wodder > On 2020 Feb 9, at 15:34, G