Install Issue Pymongo on OSX (Setuptools Out of Date)

• Fri, Apr 22, 2011
• One-minute read

easy_install on the mac has some weird hardcoding issue where it uses a specific version of setuptools. You can read a really good explanation by Andreas Jacobsen here.

The fix is to use python to call easy_install instead of using the Apple provided one.

sudo python -m easy_install pymongo

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