The simplest and recommended method of installation is using pip.
To download and install, type [1] on a console window:
pip install https://sites.google.com/site/libutilitaspy/downloads/libutilitaspy-|version|.tar.gz
Note
If you don’t have pip, then follow the instructions from this link: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
Type [1] [2] on a console window:
cd /path/to/your/downloads/folder
wget https://sites.google.com/site/libutilitaspy/downloads/libutilitaspy-0.1dev.tar.gz
tar zxf libutilitaspy-0.1dev.tar.gz
cd libutilitaspy-0.1dev
python setup.py install
Note
It is preferable to install using pip, as it makes it easier to uninstall packages.
Find out the Python prefix directory. You can do that by typing on the command line:
$ python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"
For a standard central Python distribution, this is typically /usr or /usr/local on Linux [3] or C:\Python26 on Windows, but it could be something else, for example if you are using virtualenv.
Find out the location of the Python site-packages directory. On Linux this is <prefix>/lib/python<version>/site-packages [4] and <prefix>\lib\site-packages on Windows.
So for example, common locations are /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages and /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.
Go to the site-packages folder and remove the package and egg info, e.g.:
$ cd /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
$ rm -rf libutilitaspy*
On Linux, go to the <prefix>/share directory and remove the package folder. For example:
$ cd /usr/share
$ rm -rf libutilitaspy*
Footnotes
[1] | (1, 2, 3) You may need to type sudo in front of the pip install ... command (or python setup.py install) |
[2] | The wget command is a command on Unix-like systems (Linux, MacOSX) which downloads the distribution archive, and may not be available on all platforms. Alternatively you can just download and extract the archive in a folder of your choice. An alternative to wget is the curl command. |
[3] | Some distributions have Python on both /usr and /usr/local so you might have to check both. |
[4] | On Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu, site-packages is usually called dist-packages. |