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A full list of ``pip``'s capabilities is available by typing ``pip --help``.

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While your system will quite likely already have Python installation, you might wish to install a different version. This is done in the typical Linux software source install procedure::

$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz
$ tar -xvf Python-2.7.2.tgz
$ cd Python-2.7.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install