How to change default install location for pip

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I m trying to install Pandas using pip  but I m having a bit of trouble   I just ran sudo pip install pandas which successfully downloaded pandas   However  it did not get downloaded to the location that I wanted   Here s what I see when I use pip show pandas   --- Name  pandas Version  0 14 0 Location   Library Python 2 7 site-packages pandas-0 14 0-py2 7-macosx-10 9-intel egg Requires  python-dateutil  pytz  numpy   So it is installed   But I was confused when I created a new Python Project and searched under System Libs lib python for pandas  because it didn t show up   Some of the other packages that I ve downloaded in the past did show up  however  so I tried to take a look at where those were   Running pip show numpy  which I can import with no problem  yielded   --- Name  numpy Version  1 6 2 Location   System Library Frameworks Python framework Versions 2 7 Extras lib python Requires     Which is in a completely different directory   For the sake of confirming my error  I ran pip install pyquery to see where it would be downloaded to  and got   Name  pyquery Version  1 2 8 Location   Library Python 2 7 site-packages Requires  lxml  cssselect   So the same place as pandas     How do I change the default download location for pip so that these packages are downloaded to the same location that numpy is in     Note  There were a few similar questions that I saw when searching for a solution  but I didn t see anything that mentioned permanently changing the default location

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You can set the following environment variable   PIP TARGET  path to pip dir   https   pip pypa io en stable user guide  environment-variables

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Open Terminal and type  pip config set global target  Users Bob Library Python 3 8 lib python site-packages  except instead of  Users Bob Library Python 3 8 lib python site-packages  you would use whatever directory you want

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According to pip documentation at http   pip readthedocs org en stable user guide  configuration You will need to specify the default install location within a pip ini file  which  also according to the website above is usually located as follows  On Unix and Mac OS X the configuration file is   HOME  pip pip conf On Windows  the configuration file is   HOME  pip pip ini  The  HOME  is located in C  Users Bob on windows assuming your name is Bob On linux the  HOME directory can be located by using cd   You may have to create the pip ini file when you find your pip directory  Within your pip ini or pip config you will then need to put  assuming your on windows  something like  global  target C  Users Bob Desktop  Except that you would replace C  Users Bob Desktop with whatever path you desire  If you are on Linux you would replace it with something like  usr local your path After saving the command would then be pip install pandas  However  the program you install might assume it will be installed in a certain directory and might not work as a result of being installed elsewhere

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