How to use Python s pip to download and keep the zipped files for a package

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If I want to use the pip command to download a package  and its dependencies   but keep all of the zipped files that get downloaded  say  django-socialregistration tar gz  - is there a way to do that   I ve tried various command-line options  but it always seems to unpack and delete the zipfile - or it gets the zipfile  but only for the original package  not the dependencies

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installing python packages offline For windows users  To download into a file open your cmd and folow this  cd  lt  the file-path where you want to save it  gt  pip download  lt  package name  gt  the package and the dependencies will be downloaded in the current working directory  To install from the current working directory  set your folder where you downloaded as the cwd then follow these  pip install  lt  the package name which is downloded as  whl  gt   --no-index --find-links  lt  the file locaation where the files are downloaded  gt  this will search for dependencies in that location

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I would prefer  RHEL  - pip download package  version --no-deps --no-binary  all

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Use pip download  lt package1 package2 package n gt  to download all the packages including dependencies  Use pip install --no-index --find-links    lt package1 package2 package n gt  to install all the packages including dependencies   It gets all the files from CWD   It will not download anything

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The --download-cache option should do what you want   pip install --download-cache   pth to downloaded files  package   However  when I tested this  the main package downloaded  saved and installed ok  but the the dependencies were saved with their full url path as the name - a bit annoying  but all the tar gz files were there   The --download option downloads the main package and its dependencies and does not install any of them   Note that prior to version 1 1 the --download option did not download dependencies    pip install package --download   pth to downloaded files    The pip documentation outlines using --download for fast  amp  local installs

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pip wheel is another option you should consider   pip wheel mypackage -w   outputdir   It will download packages and their dependencies to a directory  current working directory by default   but it performs the additional step of converting any source packages to wheels   It conveniently supports requirements files   pip wheel -r requirements txt -w   outputdir   Add the --no-deps argument if you only want the specifically requested packages   pip wheel mypackage -w   outputdir --no-deps

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In version 7 1 2 pip downloads the wheel of a package  if available  with the following   pip install package -d  path to downloaded file   The following downloads a source distribution   pip install package -d  path to downloaded file --no-binary  all    These download the dependencies as well  if pip is aware of them  e g   if pip show package lists them      Update  As noted by Anton Khodak  pip download command is preferred since version 8  In the above examples this means that  path to downloaded file needs to be given with option -d  so replacing install with download works

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I always do this to download the packages   pip install --download  path to download to packagename  OR  pip install --download  path to packages downloaded -r requirements txt  And when I want to install all of those libraries I just downloaded  I do this   pip install --no-index --find-links   path to downloaded dependencies  packagename   OR   pip install --no-index --find-links   path to downloaded packages  -r requirements txt    Update  Also  to get all the packages installed on one system  you can export them all to requirement txt that will be used to intall them on another system  we do this   pip freeze  gt  requirement txt  Then  the requirement txt can be used as above for download  or do this to install them from requirement txt   pip install -r requirement txt  REFERENCE  pip installer

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pip install --download is deprecated  Starting from version 8 0 0 you should use pip download command    pip download  lt package-name gt

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