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I'm new to python and I need to install *.whl files locally from some folder (repository). I can install *whl like by using the command pip install path_to_file/*.whl, but this is not I want, what I do want is to write pip install some_whl_package and install the package specified from LOCAL directory. How can I do it? I use python 3.8.
Note that the dist folder must contain the whl file.you can also install .tar.gz packages like this
pip install --no-index -f ./dist my_package.whl
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While developing a package I installed it through pip install -e .
Now when I pip uninstall myPackage I get
Found existing installation: myPackage 0.1.2
Can't uninstall 'myPackage'. No files were found to uninstall.
with pip show myPackage I get:
Location: /mnt/home/aerijman/scripts/myPackage
I don't want to delete the path. How do I uninstall it?
Thank you
Assuming the project's name is MyProject, there should be a MyProject.egg-link file in the site-packages directory for this Python interpreter. Running the command /path/to/pythonX.Y -m site should help you figure out the possible location of this directory. Find the directory, find the MyProject.egg-link file, delete the file. Then you might also need to find a easy-install.pth in a similar site-packages directory (most likely the same), and in this file delete the line mentioning MyProject.
I'm having an issue when trying to run sudo pip install ... as it timesout when ever I try to install a package that way. I'm behind a proxy (OS is RHEL7) and I setup the proxy by running:
export http_proxy=http://proxy:8099
export https_proxy=http://proxy:8099
if I do a pip install ..., that downloads but can't install because I'm not running as sudo. If I do sudo pip install ..., the Collecting ... part keeps giving me a network unreachable error.
Try downloading the *.whl file and install the package passing the filename as parameter to pip. For example, the following line is trying to install BeautifulSoup.
python -m pip install beautifulsoup4-4.5.3-py2-none-any.whl
Also, you may download the compressed file, extract it and run the setup.py file inside of that folder.
tar -xzvf beautifulsoup4-4.5.3.tar.gz
cd beautifulsoup4-4.5.3
python setup.py install
Wanted this answer to be a comment, but still. You have:
export https_proxy=http://proxy:8099
which is using http, but it should be https actually. Try editing this line.
In addition to what the others have posted, I found this link. It seems that there is a known problem with pip and proxies. You also may have to use the --proxy=<proxy address> flag with your pip command.
I'm having trouble installing a Python package on my Windows machine, and would like to install it with Christoph Gohlke's Window binaries. (Which, to my experience, alleviated much of the fuss for many other package installations). However, only .whl files are available.
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#jpype
But how do I install .whl files?
Notes
I've found documents on wheel, but they don't seem so staightforward in explaining how to install .whl files.
This question is a duplicate with this question, which wasn't directly answered.
I just used the following which was quite simple. First open a console then cd to where you've downloaded your file like some-package.whl and use
pip install some-package.whl
Note: if pip.exe is not recognized, you may find it in the "Scripts" directory from where python has been installed. If pip is not installed, this page can help:
How do I install pip on Windows?
Note: for clarification
If you copy the *.whl file to your local drive (ex. C:\some-dir\some-file.whl) use the following command line parameters --
pip install C:/some-dir/some-file.whl
First, make sure you have updated pip to enable wheel support:
pip install --upgrade pip
Then, to install from wheel, give it the directory where the wheel is downloaded. For example, to install package_name.whl:
pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=/where/its/downloaded package_name
There are several file versions on the great Christoph Gohlke's site.
Something I have found important when installing wheels from this site is to first run this from the Python console:
import pip
print(pip.pep425tags.get_supported())
so that you know which version you should install for your computer. Picking the wrong version may fail the installing of the package (especially if you don't use the right CPython tag, for example, cp27).
I am in the same boat as the OP.
Using a Windows command prompt, from directory:
C:\Python34\Scripts>
pip install wheel
seemed to work.
Changing directory to where the whl was located, it just tells me 'pip is not recognized'. Going back to C:\Python34\Scripts>, then using the full command above to provide the 'where/its/downloaded' location, it says Requirement 'scikit_image-...-win32.whl' looks like a filename, but the filename does not exist.
So I dropped a copy of the .whl in Python34/Scripts, ran the exact same command over again (with the --find-links= still going to the other folder), and this time it worked.
There's a slight difference between accessing the .whl file in python2 and python3. In python3, you need to install wheel first and then you can access .whl files.
Python3
pip install package.whl
OR
pip install wheel
And then by using wheel
wheel unpack some-package.whl
Python2
pip install some-package.whl
You have to run pip.exe from the command prompt on my computer.
I type C:/Python27/Scripts/pip2.exe install numpy
On Windows you can't just upgrade using pip install --upgrade pip, because the pip.exe is in use and there would be an error replacing it. Instead, you should upgrade pip like this:
easy_install --upgrade pip
Then check the pip version:
pip --version
If it shows 6.x series, there is wheel support.
Only then, you can install a wheel package like this:
pip install your-package.whl
To be able to install wheel files with a simple doubleclick on them you can do one the following:
1) Run two commands in command line under administrator privileges:
assoc .whl=pythonwheel
ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install "%1" ^& pause
2) Alternatively, they can be copied into a wheel.bat file and executed with 'Run as administrator' checkbox in the properties.
PS pip.exe is assumed to be in the PATH.
Update:
(1) Those can be combined in one line:
assoc .whl=pythonwheel& ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install -U "%1" ^& pause
(2) Syntax for .bat files is slightly different:
assoc .whl=pythonwheel& ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install -U "%%1" ^& pause
Also its output can be made more verbose:
#assoc .whl=pythonwheel|| echo Run me with administrator rights! && pause && exit 1
#ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install -U "%%1" ^& pause || echo Installation error && pause && exit 1
#echo Installation successfull & pause
see my blog post for details.
In-case if you unable to install specific package directly using PIP.
You can download a specific .whl (wheel) package from - https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
CD (Change directory) to that downloaded package and install it manually by -
pip install PACKAGENAME.whl
ex:
pip install ad3‑2.1‑cp27‑cp27m‑win32.whl
EDIT: THIS NO LONGER IS A PART OF PIP
To avoid having to download such files, you can try:
pip install --use-wheel pillow
For more information, see this.
You can install the .whl file, using pip install filename. Though to use it in this form, it should be in the same directory as your command line, otherwise specify the complete filename, along with its address like pip install C:\Some\PAth\filename.
Also make sure the .whl file is of the same platform as you are using, do a python -V to find out which version of Python you are running and if it is win32 or 64, install the correct version according to it.
The only way I managed to install NumPy was as follows:
I downloaded NumPy from here
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy
This Module
https://pypi.python.org/packages/d7/3c/d8b473b517062cc700575889d79e7444c9b54c6072a22189d1831d2fbbce/numpy-1.11.2-cp35-none-win32.whl#md5=e485e06907826af5e1fc88608d0629a2
Command execution from Python's installation path in PowerShell
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Python35-32> .\python -m pip install C:/Users/MyUsername/Documents/Programs/Python/numpy-1.11.2-cp35-none-win32.whl
Processing c:\users\MyUsername\documents\programs\numpy-1.11.2-cp35-none-win32.whl
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy-1.11.2
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Python35-32>
PS.: I installed it on Windows 10.
New Python users on Windows often forget to add Python's \Scripts directory to the PATH variable during the installation. I recommend to use the Python launcher and execute pip as a script with the -m switch. Then you can install the wheels for a specific Python version (if more than one are installed) and the Scripts directory doesn't have to be in the PATH. So open the command line, navigate (with the cd command) to the folder where the .whl file is located and enter:
py -3.6 -m pip install your_whl_file.whl
Replace 3.6 by your Python version or just enter -3 if the desired Python version appears first in the PATH. And with an active virtual environment: py -m pip install your_whl_file.whl.
Of course you can also install packages from PyPI in this way, e.g.
py -3.6 -m pip install pygame
I would be suggesting you the exact way how to install .whl file.
Initially I faced many issues but then I solved it, Here is my trick to install .whl files.
Follow The Steps properly in order to get a module imported
Make sure your .whl file is kept in the python 2.7/3.6/3.7/.. folder.
Initially when you download the .whl file the file is kept in downloaded folder, my
suggestion is to change the folder. It makes it easier to install the file.
Open command prompt and open the folder where you have kept the file by entering
cd c:\python 3.7
3.Now, enter the command written below
>py -3.7(version name) -m pip install (file name).whl
Click enter and make sure you enter the version you are currently using with correct
file name.
Once you press enter, wait for few minutes and the file will be installed and you will
be able to import the particular module.
In order to check if the module is installed successfully, import the module in idle
and check it.
Thank you:)
On the MacOS, with pip installed via MacPorts into the MacPorts python2.7, I had to use #Dunes solution:
sudo python -m pip install some-package.whl
Where python was replaced by the MacPorts python in my case, which is python2.7 or python3.5 for me.
The -m option is "Run library module as script" according to the manpage.
(I had previously run sudo port install py27-pip py27-wheel to install pip and wheel into my python 2.7 installation first.)
What I did was first updating the pip by using the command:
pip install --upgrade pip and then I also installed wheel by using command: pip install wheel and then it worked perfectly Fine.
Hope it works for you I guess.
Download the package (.whl).
Put the file inside the script folder of python directory
C:\Python36\Scripts
Use the command prompt to install the package.
C:\Python36\Scripts>pip install package_name.whl
Theoretically:
Because wheel is a built distribution spec ie, no dependency on a build system and because it's a ZIP-format archive, it just has to be unpacked to the target location in-order to be used.
While pip install *.wheel adds extra features, we can also unzip (using a standard archive tool eg: 7zip) the .whl file into site-packages directory to use the package.
https://packaging.python.org/specifications/binary-distribution-format/
My familiarity with pip ends up with the ability to do: 'pip install', 'pip uninstall', and 'pip list' - with the name of the package I want to install as the single argument.
This limited knowledge carried me so far, to the extent I'm able to install most of the simple packages, and sometime, when I'm luck, I'm even able to install packages that requires compilation. This is all magic for me.
I'm now facing a situation where I need to do a little bit of editing to the C file (side note: this seems to be a known workaround for the 'netifaces' package - which everyone seems to be in peace with. By itself this is an amazing phenomena).
So I would like to break the installation into smaller steps:
Download the egg file (I've figured out this one: pip install --download).
Unzip or otherwise unpackage the package file, to the point I can edit individual
Do my custom modification.
Do the build
Do the installation.
Other than step #1, I don't know how to proceed.
Modern pip (Since 1.10)
Use pip download:
pip download mypackage
pip 1.5 - 1.9
Use pip install -d
pip install -d . --allow-external netifaces --allow-unverified netifaces netifaces
tar xzf netifaces-0.8.tar.gz # Unpack the downloaded file.
cd netifaces-0.8
Now do your modifications and continue:
pip install .
Old pip (Before 1.5)
Install the package with --no-install option; with --no-install option, pip downloads and unpacks all packages, but does not actually install the package.
pip install --no-install netifaces
Change to the build directory. If you don't know where is the build directory, issue above command again, then it display the location.
cd /tmp/pip_build_falsetru/netifaces
Do the custom modification.
Install the package using pip install . (add --no-clean option if you want keep the build directory) or python setup.py install.
sudo pip install --no-clean .
First, download the source to 0.8 from the author's home page (there's no direct download link from PyPI, for some reason). Go to the directory where you downloaded it and unzip it:
tar zxvf netifaces-0.8.tar.gz
Enter the netifaces-0.8/ directory and edit netifaces.c with your favorite editor. Save the file. Then, build the module:
python setup.py build
and install it:
sudo python setup.py install
To test, first leave the directory, then start your python interpreter and import netifaces to see if it works.
Good luck!
Download your selected package, extract the files,edit what you want. Then, open the directory with your terminal\cmd and run:
python setup.py install
Depending on your os you might need to add a little sudo to the beginning of this command (if you intend to install globally on a Unix machine)
You could just download the source from pypi, edit it and use setup.py buid, setup.py install