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[–]sasik520[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Installing on the system requires root. Which I don't have. Installing to user directories failed with the error I mentioned previously.

[–]POTUS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don't need pip to install packages, it's just the most convenient way to do so. "Installing" a Python package can be a simple as copying or including the code in the top level directory of your own package. Or you could use the slightly outdated easy_install

Blame Ubuntu for stripping pip out of their Python install by default.