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Why not "sudo apt-get install python-lxml python-beautifulsoup"? Difficult to make the "olde" argument when you're installing dependencies from apt.

• wesleyzhao 15y ago
  Does that work? If I remember correctly I may have tried that and it was one of the things that failed. Something would not compile I believe. I am still a noob so if that works and I just messed it up I wouldn't be surprised. Do you know by experience that is all you need?
  • VuongN 15y ago
    Worked for me when I did it on Debain Squeeze. I later ended up uninstalling the apt-get version and install the newer version from pipy via pip.
    • wesleyzhao 15y ago
      Interesting - so would this not have worked for my Ubuntu ami instance or my Ubuntu home machine?
      • kevindication 15y ago
        Works just fine on Ubuntu.
      • oinksoft 15y ago
        I can't speak for Ubuntu, but it's supposed to be reasonably stable and there is absolutely no reason to believe that package installation for this sort of software would differ between machines.
  • oinksoft 15y ago
    ... of course it will work. And there's no compilation step involved, either, as I've never encountered a Debian package that was not a binary distribution (but maybe there are some, requiring build-essential? This package surely does not depend on build-essential).
    • wesleyzhao 15y ago
      I'll run this on a clean Ubuntu instance and if this works I'll update my post! Thanks!!
  • danohuiginn 15y ago
    yes, that's really all you need. I've just tried on a couple of different versions of ubuntu, and it worked on them all. If you find a version of ubuntu or debian where that doesn't work, file a bug!
• pavel_lishin 15y ago
  That doesn't work with virtualenv, does it? The advantage of pip and easy_install is that you can install it per project without fucking up global dependencies, etc.
  • ianb 15y ago
    It should be fine as long as you don't use --no-site-packages
• wesleyzhao 15y ago
  Just tried that on a new Ubuntu instance...it worked!!! Wow...