No installation links for installing from source

[emilyhoughkovacs]

I followed instructions to download from source here and received the error:

No local packages or working download links found for google-cloud-storage
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('google-cloud-storage')
which you can verify on
https://pypi.python.org/simple/google-cloud-storage/ which it was it was trying to read.

I think it should be here instead: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/google-cloud

[dhermes]

@emilyhoughkovacs Thanks for filing! We'll definitely need to update that document.

That's some really bad timing. We are in the middle of a crazy rename / re-packaging sprint (#2404) and that won't quite work that way.

The "easiest" way to install from source right now would be to use tox:

tox -e py27 --recreate --notest

and then source .tox/py27/bin/activate to activate the virtual environment where everything has been installed.

[dhermes]

@emilyhoughkovacs Is this still relevant after #2440 has been filed?

[emilyhoughkovacs]

Not to me but I filed the ticket just so you would be aware of it for anyone trying to use source

[dhermes]

Ah right. I still need to update that instruction.