installing easy_install for Python 2.6.2 (missing?)

Question

I am not a python user, I'm just trying to get couchdb-dump up and running and it's in an "egg" file which I guess needs easy_install. I have Python 2.6.2 running on my computer but it seems to know nothing about easy_install or setuptools... help! What can I do to fix this???

edit: you may note from the setuptools page that there are Windows .exe installers for 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5, but not 2.6. What the heck?!?!

argh, this is a duplicate question, sorry.

p.s. this solution is the one that seemed simplest and it worked for me.

Answer 1

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
... has been updated and has windows installers for Python 2.6 and 2.7

(note: if you need 64-bit windows installer: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/)

Answer 2

I don't like the whole easy_install thing either.

But the solution is to download the source, untar it, and type

python setup.py install

Answer 3

For installing setuptools for 2.6 download "ez_setup.py" from:

http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/branches/setuptools-0.6/#egg=setuptools-dev06

And run it. setuptools should be installed. This will place easy_install in your python26/Scripts directory, make sure this is in your PATH, and then you should be able to use easy_install.