easy_install

[Labitt, Bruce]

I'm trying to install PyOpenGL.  (I'd like to use mat3d.py)  Using
easy_install is proving to be problematic.  I tried

$ sudo easy_install PyOpenGL

and got an error: Download error: (110, 'Connection timed out')

Is this a firewall/proxy sort of error?

I already downloaded the file PyOpenGL-3.0.0b5.tar.gz and untarred it.
Can I run easy_install to just use this file instead?

-Bruce