nltk/nltk — Issue #153: Broken link prevents 'pip install nltk' from working
Author: alexrudnick
Created: 2012-01-17 06:27:17+00:00
State: open

Please identify your OS version and what is being installed (NLTK code,
NLTK data, some dependent package, ...)

Ubuntu 10.04, NLTK v 2.0.1rc1.

What problem did you encounter with installation?

'pip install nltk' fails with the following error:

HTTP error 404 while getting http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.01rc1.tar.gz (from http://www.nltk.org/download)
Could not install requirement nltk because of error HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Could not install requirement nltk because of HTTP error HTTP Error 404: Not Found for URL http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.01rc1.tar.gz (from http://www.nltk.org/download)

Did you find any fixes? Please suggest ways to improve our installation instructions.

The problem is that the link to http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.0.1rc1.tar.gz is broken on nltk.org, where it is pointing instead to http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.01rc1.tar.gz (note the two missing periods).

The fix is to install with 'pip install http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.0.1rc1.tar.gz', but obviously what you really need to do is fix the link on the site.

Migrated from http://code.google.com/p/nltk/issues/detail?id=665