How to install Easy Install for python

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Windows

1. Go to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-easy-install
2. Right click on "ez_setup.py" and save the file to "c:\temp"
3. Open a cmd.exe prompt
4. "cd c:\temp"
5. "python ez_setup.py"

Cygwin

1. $ cd /tmp
2. $ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
3. $ python ez_setup.py

Ubuntu Linux

1. $ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential