Re: [cx-oracle-users] Cannot install cx-Oracle 5.1.1 using pip

[Anthony T. <ant...@gm...>]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Raymond Tau <ray...@tr...>wrote:

> Anthony Tuininga <anthony.tuininga@...> writes:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I suspect that is due to the fact that PyPI used to scrape the download
> pages
> > and now does not do so. Of course the immediate question is why you are
> > installing 5.1.1 when 5.1.3 was just released? If you really need it you
> can
> > download it yourself directly from SourceForge (which is where I used to
> > host the files) but I have no intentions of uploading the older versions
> to
> > PyPI!
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Raymond Tau <raymond.tau-
> lSjQ/mva...@pu...> wrote:Hi,
> > Starting from 26 May, we found that we could not install cx-Oracle 5.1.1
> > using pip. Previously, that was running fine. May I know if that is an
> > accident or intentional? Here is the output when I tried to install
> > cx-Oracle 5.1.1:
> > > (testaaa)Sparrow:bin raymondtau$ pip install cx-Oracle==5.1.1
> > > Downloading/unpacking cx-Oracle==5.1.1
> > >   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
> cx-Oracle==5.1.1
> > > (from versions: 5.1.3)
> > > Cleaning up...
> > > No distributions matching the version for cx-Oracle==5.1.1
> > > Storing complete log in /Users/raymondtau/.pip/pip.log
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> We have some existing program which use 5.1.1, so we want to use that for
> new
> installation as well until we have time to test that with 5.1.3.
>

Makes sense. :-)

For your information, I could install 5.1.1 version with this command:
> pip install \
> -f http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cx-oracle/5.1.1/\
> cx_Oracle-5.1.1.tar.gz cx-Oracle==5.1.1
>

Thanks for posting this for anyone else who might run into the same
difficulties.

Anthony