Package name is not reflective of installed package

[zachriggle]

Consider I am not a pwntools user, but come across a script.

from pwn import *
# ...

If I attempt to install the pwn package, I get something else*.

$ pip install pwn

I now have something different than the latest released version of pwntools. The correct package on pypi is pwntools.

How do we reconcile these?

[zachriggle]

Solution:

I own several packages on PyPI. I have set them all up with dummy packages that have pwntools as a requirement.

• ctf
• exploit
• pwn
• pwning
• hack

Now pip install pwn works to get the latest pwntools:

user@ubuntu:~$ pip install pwn
Downloading/unpacking pwn
  Downloading pwn-1.0.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/user/pip_build_user/pwn/setup.py) egg_info for package pwn

Downloading/unpacking pwntools (from pwn)
  Downloading pwntools-2.1.3.tar.gz (5.5MB): 5.5MB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/user/pip_build_user/pwntools/setup.py) egg_info for package pwntools

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): paramiko in ./.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pwntools->pwn)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): argparse in ./.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pwntools->pwn)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): mako in ./.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pwntools->pwn)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyelftools in ./.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pwntools->pwn)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): MarkupSafe>=0.9.2 in ./.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from mako->pwntools->pwn)
Installing collected packages: pwn, pwntools
  Running setup.py install for pwn

  Running setup.py install for pwntools
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/shellcraft from 664 to 775
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/hex from 664 to 775
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/constgrep from 664 to 775
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/unhex from 664 to 775
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/disasm from 664 to 775
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/asm from 664 to 775
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/cyclic from 664 to 775

    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/shellcraft to 775
    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/hex to 775
    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/constgrep to 775
    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/unhex to 775
    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/disasm to 775
    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/asm to 775
    changing mode of /home/user/.pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/cyclic to 775
Successfully installed pwn pwntools
Cleaning up...
user@ubuntu:~$ unset PYTHONPATH
user@ubuntu:~$ python -c 'from pwn  import *; print pwnlib.version.__version__'
2.1.3