install tweepy python no command supplied

Question

I'm trying to install the libraries of tweepy in python 2.7. when I start the setup.py I get an error:

error: no command supplied

how can I do? I've just installed the libraries setuptools.

Answer 1

You generally want to use a tool like pip or easy_install to handle the installation of packages for you.

The setup.py script takes commands; it can do different things for you, including installing in you Python site-packages location, but you do need to tell it what command to execute.

To see the available commands, use:

setup.py --help-commands

but for installing, you probably wanted:

setup.py install

Answer 2

python setup.py install

You may need first also do:

python setup.py build

and if you are on linux probable both will need to be prefixed by sudo

easy_install or pip will do the above for you and will also fetch any dependencies.