Installing TurboGears on a host behind a proxy

You probably reached this page, because you encountered a problem when trying to install TurboGears. When you run easy_install or tgsetup.py, you get something like this

Searching for turbogears
Reading http://www.turbogears.org/preview/download/index.html
error: Download error: (10060, 'Operation timed out')

This may mean, that you are behind a proxy and easy_install is not able to access the files it wants to download. But fear not, there is an environment variable which you can set, to tell easy_install about your proxy.

Linux

export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.com:yourPort"

or if you need proxy authentication:

export http_proxy="http://user:passwd@your.proxy.com:yourPort"

Windows

tested on XP

set HTTP_PROXY=http://your.proxy.com:yourPort

you can also use the “” in windows

Mac

TODO

Try again

After setting the proxy, run the easy_install command again (you may need to log out and in again or open a new command line window for the environment change to take effect):

easy_install -i http://www.turbogears.org/1.0/downloads/current/index TurboGears

Workaround

If, by some chance, you can’t set the proxy or want to do an offline install, download all the eggs and run easy_install with the -f option pointing to the directory where you downloaded the packages. See also “How can I do offline installations?” in the FAQ.