By default, the only site that pip fetches data from is <https://pypi.org>, 
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, George R Goffe via Distutils-SIG 
> <distutils-sig@python.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <pid of pip> shows that pip is 
> in (hung?) in the recvfrom(...) system call.
> 
> Is pip trying to "talk" with a site that's down? Perhaps I'm not doing 
> something correctly?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> George...
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