How to manually install a pypi module without pip easy install

Question

I want to use the gntp module to display toaster-like notifications for a C C   software  I want to package all the dependencies for the soft to be self-executable on a another computer   The gntp module is only available through the pip installer  which cannot be used  The computer which is running the soft do not have any internet connection    how can I install it from the sources    I would prefer not to force the user to install easy install pip and manually add the pip path to the  PATH   PS   I m using Python 2 7 on a Windows machine

User · Accepted Answer

Download the package
unzip it if it is zipped
cd into the directory containing setup.py
If there are any installation instructions contained in documentation contianed herein, read and follow the instructions OTHERWISE
type in python setup.py install

You may need administrator privileges for step 5. What you do here thus depends on your operating system. For example in Ubuntu you would say sudo python setup.py install

EDIT- thanks to kwatford (see first comment)

To bypass the need for administrator privileges during step 5 above you may be able to make use of the --user flag. In this way you can install the package only for the current user.

The docs say:

Files will be installed into subdirectories of site.USER_BASE (written as userbase hereafter). This scheme installs pure Python modules and extension modules in the same location (also known as site.USER_SITE). Here are the values for UNIX, including Mac OS X:

More details can be found here: http://docs.python.org/2.7/install/index.html

User · Answer

To further explain Sheena s answer  I needed to have setup-tools installed as a dependency of another tool e g  more-itertools   Download  Click the Clone or download button and choose your method  I placed these into a dev py libs directory in my user home directory  It does not matter where they are saved  because they will not be installed there    setuptools  https   github com pypa setuptools more-itertools  https   github com erikrose more-itertools   Installing setup-tools  You will need to run the following inside the setup-tools directory   python bootstrap py python setup py install   General dependencies installation  Now you can navigate to the more-itertools direcotry and install it as normal    Download the package Unpackage it if it s an archive Navigate  cd      into the directory containing setup py If there are any installation instructions contained in the documentation contained herein  read and follow the instructions OTHERWISE Type in  python setup py install

User · Answer

Even though Sheena s answer does the job  pip doesn t stop just there    From Sheena s answer         Download the package   unzip it if it is zipped   cd into the directory containing setup py   If there are any installation instructions contained in documentation contained herein  read and follow the instructions   OTHERWISE   type in python setup py install      At the end of this  you ll end up with a  egg file in site-packages  As a user  this shouldn t bother you  You can import and uninstall the package normally  However  if you want to do it the pip way  you can continue the following steps   In the site-packages directory    unzip  lt  egg file gt  rename the EGG-INFO directory as  lt pkg gt - lt version gt  dist-info Now you ll see a separate directory with the package name   lt pkg-directory gt  find  lt pkg-directory gt   gt   lt pkg gt - lt version gt  dist-info RECORD find  lt pkg gt - lt version gt  dist-info  gt  gt   lt pkg gt - lt version gt  dist-info RECORD  The  gt  gt  is to prevent overwrite    Now  looking at the site-packages directory  you ll never realize you installed without pip  To uninstall  just do the usual pip uninstall  lt pkg gt

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