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copied!<p>So I decided to install python packages (technically Django apps) directly from the downloaded tar file, by extracting it and using the following command:</p> <pre><code>python setup.py install </code></pre> <p>However, inside my site-packages directory I find that the package was installed inside a .egg directory that also has version numbers. They directories look annoyingly like this:</p> <pre><code>site-packages/django_cms-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/cms site-packages/django_cms-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/mptt </code></pre> <p>I need the packages to install as a directory with the package name with no .egg or version number, otherwise Django can't find the package. It should be like this:</p> <pre><code>site-packages/cms site-packages/mptt </code></pre> <p>Attempting to install the same package from pip, and it works fine. This is frustrating, so some help would be appreciated.</p> <p>I tracked down a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6301003/stopping-setup-py-from-installing-as-egg">thread</a> that discusses something similar, but it didn't give a solution that worked.</p> <p>edit: Let me further explain, the python (django) project is unable to locate the packages I installed, because the packages aren't installed at the root of site-packages dir. Instead it resides inside the .egg directories. What I had to do is manuall move the package to the root, but how do you correctly install python packages?</p> <p>another edit: I didn't suppress the easy-install.pth file, but it isn't picked up by PyDev.</p>

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