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... > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/S6SBB5SOOPRLUVQRGNG4RUHHM5XLTVTI/ -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/UV6OIAWLTI72V7M2N765ZGNVGKRUBHEB/