WIPACrepo/pyglidein

Update Install instructions for 2.6 users

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Setuptools stopped supporting python 2.6 in v37. Update install docs with a CentOS 6 section to tell people to:
pip install setuptools==36.8.0
before installing pyglidein.

Do you still need to support Python 2.6? It's EOL, hasn't received security updates in 4 years and generally has low use.

Here's monthly pip installs from PyPI (via pypinfo --percent --pip --markdown "" pyversion)

python_version percent download_count
2.7 77.7% 435,636,261
3.6 8.8% 49,199,570
3.5 8.4% 46,927,461
3.4 3.9% 21,843,444
2.6 1.1% 6,194,026
3.3 0.1% 554,661
3.7 0.1% 428,159
3.2 0.0% 38,570
None 0.0% 21,921
2.8 0.0% 35
3.1 0.0% 26

Yes, because RHEL6 runs python 2.6. Unfortunately, it still is the most popular OS on clusters.

Updated Install Readme.