Installing pip packages to HOME folder

Question

Is it possible  When installing pip  install the python packages inside my  HOME folder   for example  I want to install mercurial  using pip  but inside  HOME instead of  usr local   I m with a mac machine and just thought about this possibility  instead of  polluting  my  usr local  I would use my  HOME instead   PEP370 is exactly about this  Is just creating a     local and do a pip install package enough to make these packages to be installed only at my  HOME folder

User · Answer

I would use virtualenv at your HOME directory.

$ sudo easy_install -U virtualenv
$ cd ~
$ virtualenv .
$ bin/pip ...

You could then also alter ~/.(login|profile|bash_profile), whichever is right for your shell to add ~/bin to your PATH and then that pip|python|easy_install would be the one used by default.

User · Answer

While you can use a virtualenv  you don t need to   The trick is passing the PEP370 --user argument to the setup py script   With the latest version of pip  one way to do it is   pip install --user mercurial   This should result in the hg script being installed in  HOME  local bin hg and the rest of the hg package in  HOME  local lib pythonx y site-packages    Note  that the above is true for Python 2 6   There has been a bit of controversy among the Python core developers about what is the appropriate directory location on Mac OS X for PEP370-style user installations   In Python 2 7 and 3 2  the location on Mac OS X was changed from  HOME  local to  HOME Library Python   This might change in a future release   But  for now  on 2 7  and 3 2  if hg were supported on Python 3   the above locations will be  HOME Library Python x y bin hg and  HOME Library Python x y lib python site-packages

User · Answer

You can specify the -t option  --target  to specify the destination directory  See pip install --help for detailed information  This is the command you need    pip install -t path to your home package-name   for example  for installing say mxnet  in my  HOME directory  I type    pip install -t  home foivos  mxnet

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