install python pip on linux without root

While trying to run python on Karst, i was (not) surprised that the new server does not come with numpy/pandas, but again amazed by that having no pip available. While i did make the pip works on Quarry (the retired server), I cannot really follow the old process, since I don't really remember how.... The issue seems to be that to install pip, easy_install is necessary... Anyway, thanks Evgeny for the post in askbot.org and authors of setuptools, i finally got the pip:

(touch the .bashrc, for lazy ones)