Questions tagged [pip]
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How to upgrade all Python packages with pip
Is it possible to upgrade all Python packages at one time with pip?
Note: that there is a feature request for this on the official issue tracker.
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How do I install pip on Windows?
pip is a replacement for easy_install. But should I install pip using easy_install on Windows? Is there a better way?
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Installing specific package version with pip
I am trying to install version 1.2.2 of MySQL_python, using a fresh virtualenv created with the --no-site-packages option. The current version shown in PyPi is 1.2.3. Is there a way to install the ...
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How can I install packages using pip according to the requirements.txt file from a local directory?
Here is the problem:
I have a requirements.txt file that looks like:
BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
Django==1.3
Fabric==1.2.0
Jinja2==2.5.5
PyYAML==3.09
Pygments==1.4
SQLAlchemy==0.7.1
South==0.7.3
amqplib==0.6....
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How do I install pip on macOS or OS X?
I spent most of the day yesterday searching for a clear answer for installing pip (package manager for Python). I can't find a good solution.
How do I install it?
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pg_config executable not found
I am having trouble installing psycopg2. I get the following error when I try to pip install psycopg2:
Error: pg_config executable not found.
Please add the directory containing pg_config to the ...
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How do I remove all packages installed by pip?
How do I uninstall all packages installed by pip from my currently activated virtual environment?
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How do I install a Python package with a .whl file?
I'm having trouble installing a Python package on my Windows machine, and would like to install it with Christoph Gohlke's Window binaries. (Which, to my experience, alleviated much of the fuss for ...
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How do I get a list of locally installed Python modules?
How do I get a list of Python modules installed on my computer?
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Find which version of package is installed with pip
Using pip, is it possible to figure out which version of a package is currently installed?
I know about pip install XYZ --upgrade but I am wondering if there is anything like pip info XYZ. If not ...
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pip install from git repo branch
Trying to pip install a repo's specific branch. Google tells me to
pip install https://github.com/user/repo.git@branch
The branch's name is issue/34/oscar-0.6 so I did pip install https://github.com/...
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What is the difference between pip and conda?
I know pip is a package manager for python packages. However, I saw the installation on IPython's website use conda to install IPython.
Can I use pip to install IPython? Why should I use conda as ...
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Why use pip over easy_install?
A tweet reads:
Don't use easy_install, unless you
like stabbing yourself in the face.
Use pip.
Why use pip over easy_install? Doesn't the fault lie with PyPI and package authors mostly? If an ...
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pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
This is the error I get
(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
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How do I update/upgrade pip itself from inside my virtual environment?
I'm able to update pip-managed packages, but how do I update pip itself? According to pip --version, I currently have pip 1.1 installed in my virtualenv and I want to update to the latest version.
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error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
I tried to install the Python package dulwich:
pip install dulwich
But I get a cryptic error message:
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
The same happens if I try installing the package manually:
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Can I force pip to reinstall the current version?
I've come across situations where a current version of a package seems not to be working and requires reinstallation. But pip install -U won't touch a package that is already up-to-date. I see how to ...
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How to list all available package versions with pip?
Given the name of a Python package that can be installed with pip, is there any way to find out a list of all the possible versions of it that pip could install? Right now it's trial and error.
I'm ...
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How to state in requirements.txt a direct github source
I've installed a library using the command
pip install git+git://github.com/mozilla/elasticutils.git
which installs it directly from a Github repository. This works fine and I want to have that ...
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Where does pip install its packages?
I activated a virtualenv which has pip installed. I did
pip3 install Django==1.8
and Django successfully downloaded. Now, I want to open up the Django folder. Where is the folder located?
Normally it ...
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How to update/upgrade a package using pip?
What is the way to update a package using pip?
those do not work:
pip update
pip upgrade
I know this is a simple question but it is needed as it is not so easy to find (pip documentation doesn't pop ...
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Dealing with multiple Python versions and PIP?
Is there any way to make pip play well with multiple versions of Python? For example, I want to use pip to explicitly install things to either my site 2.5 installation or my site 2.6 installation.
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pip install fails with "connection error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:598)"
I am very new to Python and trying to > pip install linkchecker on Windows 7. Some notes:
pip install is failing no matter the package. For example, > pip install scrapy also results in the SSL ...
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How to install psycopg2 with "pip" on Python?
I'm using virtualenv and I need to install "psycopg2".
I have done the following:
pip install http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/psycopg2/psycopg2-2.4.tar.gz#md5=...
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TensorFlow not found using pip
I'm trying to install TensorFlow using pip:
$ pip install tensorflow --user
Collecting tensorflow
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: )
No matching ...
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How to install pip with Python 3?
I want to install pip. It should support Python 3, but it requires setuptools, which is available only for Python 2.
How can I install pip with Python 3?
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pip uses incorrect cached package version, instead of the user-specified version
I need to install psycopg2 v2.4.1 specifically. I accidentally did:
pip install psycopg2
Instead of:
pip install psycopg2==2.4.1
That installs 2.4.4 instead of the earlier version.
Now even after I ...
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How can I upgrade specific packages using pip and a requirements file?
I'm using pip with a requirements file, in a virtualenv, for my Django projects. I'm trying to upgrade some packages, notably Django itself, and I'm getting an error about source code conflicts:
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bash: pip: command not found
I downloaded pip and ran python setup.py install and everything worked just fine. The very next step in the tutorial is to run pip install <lib you want> but before it even tries to find ...
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No module named pkg_resources
I'm deploying a Django app to a dev server and am hitting this error when I run pip install -r requirements.txt:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/www/mydir/virtualenvs/dev/bin/pip", ...
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Install a Python package into a different directory using pip?
I know the obvious answer is to use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper, but for various reasons I can't/don't want to do that.
So how do I modify the command
pip install package_name
to make pip ...
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'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command
I'm running into a weird error when trying to install Django on my computer.
This is the sequence that I typed into my command line:
C:\Python34> python get-pip.py
Requirement already up-to-date: ...
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Is it possible to use pip to install a package from a private GitHub repository?
I am trying to install a Python package from a private GitHub repository. For a public repository, I can issue the following command which works fine:
pip install git+git://github.com/django/django....
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Installing Python packages from local file system folder to virtualenv with pip
Is it possible to install packages using pip from the local filesystem?
I have run python setup.py sdist for my package, which has created the appropriate tar.gz file. This file is stored on my ...
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How can I Install a Python module within code?
I need to install a package from PyPI straight within my script.
Is there maybe some module or distutils (distribute, pip, etc.) feature which allows me to just execute something like pypi.install('...
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setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 [closed]
When I try to install odoo-server, I got the following error:
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
Could anyone help me to solve this ...
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Error after upgrading pip: cannot import name 'main'
Whenever I am trying to install any package using pip, I am getting this import error:
guru@guru-notebook:~$ pip3 install numpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 9, in &...
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pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available
I am using Python 3.6. When I try to install "modules" using pip3, I face this issue:
pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available
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How do I install the yaml package for Python?
I have a Python program that uses YAML. I attempted to install it on a new server using pip install yaml and it returns the following:
$ sudo pip install yaml
Downloading/unpacking yaml
Could not ...
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Using Pip to install packages to Anaconda Environment
conda 4.2.13
MacOSX 10.12.1
I am trying to install packages from pip to a fresh environment (virtual) created using anaconda. In the Anaconda docs it says this is perfectly fine. It is done the same ...
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How do I solve "error: externally-managed-environment" every time I use pip 3? [closed]
Error message:
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package ...
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Error "filename.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform"
I would like to install scipy-0.15.1-cp33-none-win_amd64.whl that I have saved to the local drive. I am using:
pip 6.0.8 from C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages
python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 10 2014, 12:28:03)...
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Reference requirements.txt for the install_requires kwarg in setuptools setup.py file
I have a requirements.txt file that I'm using with Travis-CI. It seems silly to duplicate the requirements in both requirements.txt and setup.py, so I was hoping to pass a file handle to the ...
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How to install python3 version of package via pip on Ubuntu?
I have both python2.7 and python3.2 installed in Ubuntu 12.04.
The symbolic link python links to python2.7.
When I type:
sudo pip install package-name
It will default install python2 version of ...
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How to pip install a package with min and max version range?
I'm wondering if there's any way to tell pip, specifically in a requirements file, to install a package with both a minimum version (pip install package>=0.2) and a maximum version which should ...
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Can I add comments to a pip requirements file?
I'd like to add comments for a few packages in a pip requirements file. (Just to explain why that package is on the list.) Can I do this?
I'm imagining something like
Babel==0.9.5 # translation
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Find all packages installed with easy_install/pip?
Is there a way to find all Python PyPI packages that were installed with easy_install or pip? I mean, excluding everything that was/is installed with the distributions tools (in this case apt-get on ...
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Error running 'pip install': "ImportError: No module named pip" [duplicate]
OS: Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion)
Python ver: 2.7.5
I have installed setuptools 1.0 with ez_setup.py from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools.
Then I downloaded pip.1.4.1 pkg from https://pypi.python....
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What is the purpose of "pip install --user ..."?
From pip install --help:
--user Install to the Python user install directory for your platform.
Typically ~/.local/, or %APPDATA%\Python on Windows.
(See the Python documentation for ...
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"pip install unroll": "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1
I'm trying to install some packages with pip.
But pip install unroll gives me
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
C:\Users\MARKAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-...
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