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Expand Up @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ To install pip, simply run: ::
Linux (Ubuntu)
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Natty Narwhal, the latest version of Ubuntu, **comes with Python 2.7 out of the box**. Python 3.0 can be installed and run with the following commands::
Oneiric Ocelot, the latest version of Ubuntu, **comes with Python 2.7 out of the box**. Python 3.2 can be installed and run with the following commands::

$ sudo apt-get install python3-minimal
$ python3
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While Python has an extensive standard library, the set of packages available from the Internet is even more extensive. In order to install them easily, we'll install the ``setuptools`` package and ``pip`` installer::

$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
$ sudo easy_install virtualenv
.. XXX: sudo?

(You could get ``pip`` by itself by typing ``sudo easy_install pip``, but it comes with ``virtualenv``, which you'll most likely use later anyway.)
$ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ python distribute_setup.py
$ wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py
$ rm get-pip.py distribute_setup.py

Now, most Python packages can be installed using the ``pip`` command. For example, if we wanted to install Django::

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