I am trying to get started here by downloading all of the necessary software for the program, however, I am running into a relatively easy hiccup right off the start, which is that Cygwin is telling me there is no such pip command in its library.
Hey @susanli! So basically you need to install ez_setup onto your computer. The easiest way to do it is following this reccomendation from stackexchange:
Open up your cygwin prompt and type the following:
Hi, same problem as the top post. I have installed Anaconda3 before Cygwin. From the above discussion, am I right to say that I will need to reinstall Cygwin with the Python package provided there? Are there any alternatives? Can I change the Cygwin config file to manually add a path leading to my python.exe? Thank you!
If you have “python command not found” issue:
rerun cygwin installer and in the setup window view ‘Full’ and in the Search window type ‘python2-setuptools’
Worked for me (Windows 10), thanks.
However: On my first attempt I got an error from easy_install-2.7 saying that I do not have the right permissions to change the /lib/python2.7 path. This was true as I installed cygwin with another account with administrative rights.
I fixed this with deleting cygwin again an reinstalling it only for my working account (without admin rights) by starting