having trouble installing beautifulsoup4
Linode newbie (and linux newbie) here. I just signed on with linode and spun a server to play with python and beautiful soup. but I'm having trouble installing beautiful soup 4. according to the beautifulsoup documentation, to install BS4 i should type the following:
sudo apt-get install beautifulsoup4
this is what i get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package python-beautifulsoup4
has anyone else had experience with beautiful soup 4 and could help me out?
Thanks!
PS. Running 10.04.4 if that makes a difference.
3 Replies
Your options are: * upgrade to 12.04,
configure apt to pull bs4 from another repository,
install via pip.
btw.. is there a way for me to tell if a package is out there but not available for my particular version of ubuntu? that would be very helpful..
@pclissold:
Ubuntu Lucid (10.04.4 LTS) only has beautifulsoup3 in its standard repositories. Precise (12.04 LTS) has python-beautifulsoup (which gets you 3.2.0-2) and python-bs4 (4.0.2-1).
Your options are:
* upgrade to 12.04,
configure apt to pull bs4 from another repository,
install via pip.
