In my last post on Installing memcached for Django I mentioned pip as a very easy way to install python-memcached, a module I use with Django to enable caching of the dynamic content.

Before pip installation you have to make sure you have distribute on your system. Here’s how to install it, given that you have python (remember, you don’t need to type the dollar sign in the terminal):

$ curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | python


Once the installation script is done, go ahead for the next one:

$ curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python


Super easy! Now get yourself some ice cream.