Installing specific package versions with pip I'm trying to install version 1.2.2 of the MySQL_python adaptor. The current version shown in PyPi is 1.2.3. Is there a way to install the older version? I found an article stating that this should do it: pip install MySQL_python==1.2.2 When installed, however, it still shows MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6.egg-info in the site packages. Is this a problem specific to this package, or am I doing something wrong? Answer: First, I see two issues with what you're trying to do. Since