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Fix: proper installation or use instructions URLs.
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See pypa#953 ; the URL in the documentation is wrong, since pypi doesn't offer a permalink to .tar.gz sources.

Replace with a link from github, which seems stable enough for our purposes.
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alanfranz committed Oct 27, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -30,23 +30,19 @@ Or to get the latest unreleased dev version:
$ [sudo] pip install https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/tarball/master


To install version X.X globally from source:
To install version X.X.X globally from source:

::

$ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ cd virtualenv-X.X
$ [sudo] python setup.py install

$ [sudo] pip install https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/tarball/X.X.X

To *use* locally from source:

::

$ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
$ cd virtualenv-X.X
$ curl --location --output virtualenv-X.X.X.tar.gz https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/tarball/X.X.X
$ tar xvfz virtualenv-X.X.X.tar.gz
$ cd pypa-virtualenv-YYYYYY
$ python virtualenv.py myVE

.. note::
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