I find that recently often when I try to install a Python package using pip, I get the error(s) below. I found a reference online that one has to use “python2 setup.py install” from the download directory, and indeed find that this will then work if I manually find and download the package (from pypi). … Read more
I installed Python 3.x (besides Python 2.x on Ubuntu) and slowly started to pair modules I use in Python 2.x. So I wonder, what approach should I take to make my life easy by using pip for both Python 2.x and Python 3.x? 10 Answers 10
When I do a pip freeze I see large number of Python packages that I didn’t explicitly install, e.g. $ pip freeze Cheetah==2.4.3 GnuPGInterface==0.3.2 Landscape-Client==11.01 M2Crypto==0.20.1 PAM==0.4.2 PIL==1.1.7 PyYAML==3.09 Twisted-Core==10.2.0 Twisted-Web==10.2.0 (etc.) Is there a way for me to determine why pip installed these particular dependent packages? In other words, how do I determine the … Read more
Is there any significant difference between pip install -e /path/to/mypackage and the setuptools variant? python /path/to/mypackage/setup.py develop 4 Answers 4
Is there any way to force install a pip python package ignoring all it’s dependencies that cannot be satisfied? (I don’t care how “wrong” it is to do so, I just need to do it, any logic and reasoning aside…) 3 Answers 3
I am installing packages from requirements.txt pip install -r requirements.txt The requirements.txt file reads: Pillow lxml cssselect jieba beautifulsoup nltk lxml is the only package failing to install and this leads to everything failing (expected results as pointed out by larsks in the comments). However, after lxml fails pip still runs through and downloads the … Read more
I am a ruby programmer trying to learn python. I am pretty familiar with pyenv since it is like a copy and paste from rbenv. Pyenv helps allow to have more than one version of python in a system and also to isolate the python without touching sensitive parts of system. I suppose every python … Read more
I’m developing a django app and I’m using pip to manage my requirements. How can I do to install a specific git’s commit? In my case I need to install this commit: https://github.com/aladagemre/django-notification/commit/2927346f4c513a217ac8ad076e494dd1adbf70e1 4 Answers 4
I’m taking some university classes and have been given an ‘instructional account’, which is a school account I can ssh into to do work. I want to run my computationally intensive Numpy, matplotlib, scipy code on that machine, but I cannot install these modules because I am not a system administrator. How can I do … Read more
Searching the net this seems to be a problem caused by spaces in the Python installation path. How do I get pip to work without having to reinstall everything in a path without spaces ? 27 Answers 27
