On 3/24/11 10:46 PM, Nimret Sandhu wrote:
apt would be a whole lot easier if silly IT didn't force me to use kubuntu
within a VM on windows ( kinda constrained on a laptop). ah well ..
If you need to do Windows, Python works well there, too. No Built in
package management, but most of the major python packages have binary
installers for Windows, so it's pretty easy.
For pure python, easy_install works fine, and it even works fine for
binary packages, if:
1) the package maintainers have put up binary eggs
or
2) You've got your system set up for compiling binary extensions -
that's not too hard these days (py2.6 and 2.7), I think all you need to
do is install the freely distributed MS Compiler (2008 version, I think)
(OK, a caviat on this -- it's easy unless the package has other compiled
dependencies, if it does, it can be a real pain!)
But you can get most of the way with Windows binary installers.
-Chris
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