Installing Pip on the Arduino YUN

Pip is a powerful Python package manager. The steps below outline how to install it on the Arduino YUN.

First, update the existing packages

$ opkg update

Install the distribute package. This will allow you to use the easy_install command line tool

$ opkg install distribute

Next, install the python-openssl package

$ opkg install python-openssl

Finally, use easy_install to install pip

$ easy_install pip