This page gives the steps for installing the MapFish framework with pip in a distribute-based virtual environment.

setuptools is currently being replace by distribute. Likewise, pip is more and more used as a replacement to easy_install.

The steps:

1. download and a recent version of virtualenv

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.4.3.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf virtualenv-1.4.3.tar.gz

1. create a disribute-based virtual environment

$ python virtualenv-1.4.3/virtualenv.py --no-site-packages --distribute env

1. activate the virtual environment

$ source env/bin/activate

1. install MapFish

(env) $ pip install mapfish