title: How do you run a setup.py file properly?
body: <p>I'm trying to run this setup.py file, which was in a .tat.gz file. I'm going to the directory it's in and running <em>python setup.py</em> but get this error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>brandon@brandon-NV57H:~/Downloads/numpy-1.9.2$ python setup.py
  Running from numpy source directory.
  /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
    warnings.warn(msg)
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help
  
  error: no commands supplied
  brandon@brandon-NV57H:~/Downloads/numpy-1.9.2$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me out? How do I fix this? I have both python2.7 and python3.4.</p>