One Does Not Simply 'pip install'
So, you’ve got your brand new pristine machine and you’re keen to kick off a new Python project. You know you want to use packages that others have written and focus only on the code you need to write. So you head off to github, find your favourite package and turn to the readme to get it installed - it seems dead simple just a ‘pip install’ away. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Right?
Source: One Does Not Simply 'pip install', an article by Ian Wootten.