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authorRonny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>2010-03-16 20:33:24 +0100
committerRonny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>2010-03-16 20:33:24 +0100
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document the --user cli flag
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@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ and Viewing Source Packages`_ below for more info.)::
easy_install --editable --build-directory ~/projects SQLObject
+**Example 7**. (New in 0.6.11) Install a distribution within your home dir::
+
+ easy_install --user SQLAlchemy
+
Easy Install accepts URLs, filenames, PyPI package names (i.e., ``distutils``
"distribution" names), and package+version specifiers. In each case, it will
attempt to locate the latest available version that meets your criteria.
@@ -716,6 +720,10 @@ Command-Line Options
versions of a package, but do not want to reset the version that will be
run by scripts that are already installed.
+``--user`` (New in 0.6.11)
+ Use the the user-site-packages as specified in :pep:`370`
+ instead of the global site-packages.
+
``--always-copy, -a`` (New in 0.5a4)
Copy all needed distributions to the installation directory, even if they
are already present in a directory on sys.path. In older versions of