title: installing easy_install for Python 2.6.2 (missing?)
body: <p>I am not a python user, I'm just trying to get couchdb-dump up and running and it's in an "egg" file which I guess needs easy_install. I have Python 2.6.2 running on my computer but it seems to know nothing about easy_install or setuptools... help! What can I do to fix this??? </p>
  
  <p><strong>edit:</strong> you may note from the <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows" rel="nofollow noreferrer">setuptools</a> page that there are Windows .exe installers for 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5, but not 2.6. What the heck?!?!</p>
  
  <p>argh, this is a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/309412/how-to-setup-setuptools-for-python-2-6-on-windows">duplicate question</a>, sorry.</p>
  
  <p>p.s. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/309412/how-to-setup-setuptools-for-python-2-6-on-windows/425318#425318">this solution</a> is the one that seemed simplest and it worked for me. </p>