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Merge pull request #4960 from certbot/easy-install

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Explicitly advise against using easy_install.
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Noah Swartz 2017-07-31 19:04:59 -07:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -234,11 +234,10 @@ Installing from source
Installation from source is only supported for developers and the
whole process is described in the :doc:`contributing`.
.. warning:: Please do **not** use ``python setup.py install`` or
``python pip install .``. Please do **not** attempt the
installation commands as superuser/root and/or without virtual
environment, e.g. ``sudo python setup.py install``, ``sudo pip
install``, ``sudo ./venv/bin/...``. These modes of operation might
corrupt your operating system and are **not supported** by the
Certbot team!
.. warning:: Please do **not** use ``python setup.py install``, ``python pip
install .``, or ``easy_install .``. Please do **not** attempt the
installation commands as superuser/root and/or without virtual environment,
e.g. ``sudo python setup.py install``, ``sudo pip install``, ``sudo
./venv/bin/...``. These modes of operation might corrupt your operating
system and are **not supported** by the Certbot team!