How to download cross-platform wheels via pip?

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mixman picture mixman · Jun 7, 2014 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I'm accustomed to pre-downloading packages using Pip, then copying them over to a target machine for deployment. With the newly introduced Python Wheels, I'm forced to "pip ... --no-use-wheel", as some of the downloaded packages are platform specific (I'm developing on OSX and deploying to Debian) and will not install on the target machine. Is there a way to download Wheels for target platforms (or platform independent)?

Answer

sitaktif picture sitaktif · Aug 22, 2017

The pip download command now has the --platform argument, which you can use to specify the desired platform:

pip download --platform=manylinux1_x86_64 --only-binary=:all: lxml

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