The biggest problem with apt-get is that the available versions of a given software tend to lag from the actual releases by a fair bit. Moreover, you probably

The biggest problem with apt-get is that the available versions of a given software tend to lag from the actual releases by a fair bit. Moreover, you probably don't want to install a certain package using apt-get and another using pip (not all might be available using apt-get). easy_install [0] installs remote packages (similar to CPAN for perl). Obligatory reference: Why use pip over easy_install? [1] [0] https://wiki.python.org/moin/EasyInstall https://wiki.python.org/moin/EasyInstall [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-easy-install http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-...