[Biopython-dev] Should we recommend "pip install biopython"?

Chris Mitchell chris.mit7 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 14:23:57 UTC 2015


I would add in a note that if they do not have super-user privileges, they
may use pip install --user biopython to install it locally for that user.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Should we be suggesting "pip install biopython" as the
> first approach under "For the impatient" in the README,
> over download the source then:
>
>     $ python setup.py build
>     $ python setup.py test
>     $ sudo python setup.py install
>
> I did add pip to the wiki, but perhaps that was premature?
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Download
>
> Also, can we get rid of the easy_install section on the wiki
> in favour of pip?
>
> Peter
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