Python module installing

Hardware Arduino Yún
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I'm pretty new to Linux in any form. Bought a Raspberry Pi at the same time as the Yun and am making headway but frustrating to say the least at times.

Spent all day yesterday trying to solve a problem and thought whilst not news to many of you might well but useful information to other Linux newbies coming over the Arduino world.

I wanted to make use of the PyGeoCoder module in some Python code onboard the Yun. This is dead simple using 'pip'. Not so :slight_smile:

'pip' is installed using 'easy_install' which turns out is part of 'distribute'. 'easy_install' will then fail trying to install 'pip' as Python doesn't have SSL support built into the Yun. Finally I can install the python module I wanted and get going :slight_smile:

opkg update
opkg install distribute
opkg install python-openssl
easy_install pip
pip install pygeocode

5 simple steps that took me far to long.

Hopefully this information will be of some use to others.

Dave

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Hi wildpalms and thank you very much for sharing

Would you like to add the code snippet to the playground so that everyone as a kind of FAQ?

http://playground.arduino.cc/Hardware/Yun
Arduino Playground - Yun (this is for editing, as the new website layout removed the link...)