How to install packages offline?

python pip freebsd easy-install python-requests
Chris Drantz picture Chris Drantz · Jun 18, 2012 · Viewed 265.6k times · Source

What's the best way to download a python package and it's dependencies from pypi for offline installation on another machine? Is there any easy way to do this with pip or easy_install? I'm trying to install the requests library on a FreeBSD box that is not connected to the internet.

Answer

Carl Meyer picture Carl Meyer · Jan 21, 2013

The pip download command lets you download packages without installing them:

pip download -r requirements.txt

(In previous versions of pip, this was spelled pip install --download -r requirements.txt.)

Then you can use pip install --no-index --find-links /path/to/download/dir/ -r requirements.txt to install those downloaded sdists, without accessing the network.

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