Cannot install anything using Pip

Question

I am trying to install this one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/textblob-aptagger and it says to use this code - but I do not know where to use it (command line and Python console do not work):

$ pip install -U textblob-aptagger

I installed easy_install and pip using exe files from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

So when I use the command:

$ pip install -U textblob-aptagger

in the Python console I get this error:

  File "<console>", line 1
  $ pip install -U textblob-aptagger
  ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax  

Where should I use this installation command?

Answer 1

You run the executable from the command line, but since it's not in your PATH, you'll need to supply the full filepath. On my system pip is installed at C:\Python27\Scripts, so the command I would use to install textblob-aptagger would be C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install -U textblob-aptagger. Yours will likely be located in a similar if not identical location.