pip install connection error

Question

I'm trying to install a library called gmplot using pip. This worked fine on my Mac but not my Windows 10 machine. I get the following error:

C:\Users\Alex>pip install gmplot
Collecting gmplot
  Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x0000000003BD70B8>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11003] getaddrinfo failed',)': /simple/gmplot/
  Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x0000000003BD7A58>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11003] getaddrinfo failed',)': /simple/gmplot/
  Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x0000000003BD7DA0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11003] getaddrinfo failed',)': /simple/gmplot/
  Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x0000000003BD75C0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11003] getaddrinfo failed',)': /simple/gmplot/
  Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x0000000003BD7D30>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11003] getaddrinfo failed',)': /simple/gmplot/
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement gmplot (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for gmplot

Other stackoverflow threads mention adding proxy details in the pip command, but I don't use a proxy. I've also changed my DNS to Google's DNS but this didn't work.

(Python 2.7)

Answer 1

For me the answer was to set the proxy in the .bash_profile in the root directory. If this file is not there create it.

EX :

export http_proxy=

This was done on a Centos System with connection to the internet on a virtual machine.