Dennis Lee Bieber schrieb: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:47:37 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> BTW, you can download eggs and install them from files - so while >> teaching easy_install how to deal with proxies (are these still used by >> anyone - I thought that was in the 90ties... ) certainly would be good, >> it isn't necessary. >> > Company firewall blocks practically anything that doesn't come down > from a web-browser...
Which is a totally different thing from a proxy. And I'd think that nowadays most proxies are transparent. > > I've never been able to figure out how to install a downloaded egg > -- the installer, even with the file in the same directory, still seems > to try to find a web copy and dies on the firewall. easy_install <egg> works for me. Of course you need to install dependencies. It might even work to do easy_install <egg1> <egg2> .... but I don't know for sure anymore. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list