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(/questions/ask) Ask Question     (2010-05-26 17:55:48Z) Asked 14 years, 3 months ago  Modified (?lastactivity) (2024-02-23 13:43:29Z) 6 months ago  (Viewed 1,070,209 times) Viewed 1.1m times         This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear  (69:3:31e,16:6f0fb088509c8c22,10:1725340975,16:2cf1fcbbdd03940f,7:2915471,7182f96375c3d613c1f1a7b282df9cce4bab2b7871d30ff1eab2498a7f0d4e63) 614  (This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful)    (69:3:31e,16:e5bd8f9597860d51,10:1725340975,16:da999af6311c455e,7:2915471,13d243a73a9c8c5edc2f983d14426d235d0faf18deead254a56d4ab72d4f59aa)      Save this question.  (/posts/2915471/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    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 install the package somewhere other than the default site-packages ?  (/questions/tagged/python) (show questions tagged 'python') python  (/questions/tagged/pip) (show questions tagged 'pip') pip      (/q/2915471) (Short permalink to this question) Share  Share a link to this question     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (69:3:31e,16:d7e11ce7d2f82252,10:1725340975,16:fa3eb0624303da9b,7:2915471,2245c36300309e3eb228c25ff6c061863c5efaac757a07a640db2b5fa3fc9439)  Follow this question to receive notifications       (/posts/2915471/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2015-12-08 20:51:51Z) Dec 8, 2015 at 20:51    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) (Peter Mortensen's user avatar)    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) Peter Mortensen (reputation score 31,472) 31.5k (22 gold badges)  22  22 gold badges (109 silver badges)  109  109 silver badges (132 bronze badges)  132  132 bronze badges     asked (2010-05-26 17:55:48Z) May 26, 2010 at 17:55   (/users/211075/monika-sulik) (Monika Sulik's user avatar)    (/users/211075/monika-sulik) Monika Sulik Monika Sulik (reputation score 17,068) 17.1k (15 gold badges)  15  15 gold badges (52 silver badges)  52  52 silver badges (52 bronze badges)  52  52 bronze badges        8 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 3   Related: (http://stackoverflow.com/q/10866199/95735) How to make editable install of Python package from vcs into specific directory using pip?  – (/users/95735/piotr-dobrogost) (42,181 reputation) Piotr Dobrogost  Commented (2012-06-02 22:06:29Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jun 2, 2012 at 22:06      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   Now question number two: when you're already installing into a custom directory, how to make pip NOT try to remove and older version from a non-custom directory. For example - a system-wide one, where you have no write permissions. So far I only pulled this off with easy_install ... – (/users/1338797/tomasz-gandor) (8,673 reputation) Tomasz Gandor  Commented (2014-12-11 15:41:02Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Dec 11, 2014 at 15:41      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   @TomaszGandor I think using --ignore-installed option should prevent pip from trying to uninstall already installed packages. – (/users/95735/piotr-dobrogost) (42,181 reputation) Piotr Dobrogost  Commented (2016-08-18 08:30:56Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Aug 18, 2016 at 8:30      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   sorry I am new with pip, but is your question the same as asking "as how to have pi install to a different version of python"? I have python 3.4 and 3.5 but i want my pip installations to go to python 3.5. – (/users/1601580/charlie-parker) (5,918 reputation) Charlie Parker  Commented (2017-02-08 17:30:23Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Feb 8, 2017 at 17:30   (this comment was edited 1 time)          @Charlie Nope, different question. I don't know enough about your installation/intentions, but generally I would probably use virtualenvwrapper and create a virtual environment with something like mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.5 env_name  – (/users/211075/monika-sulik) (17,068 reputation) Monika Sulik  Commented (2017-02-08 22:06:30Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Feb 8, 2017 at 22:06   (this comment was edited 1 time)          (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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The (https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/cli/pip_install/#cmdoption-t) --target switch is the thing you're looking for: pip install --target d:\somewhere\other\than\the\default package_name   But you still need to add d:\somewhere\other\than\the\default to PYTHONPATH to actually use them from that location. -t, --target <dir> Install packages into <dir>. By default this will not replace existing files/folders in <dir>.Use --upgrade to replace existing packages in <dir> with new versions.  Upgrade pip if target switch is not available: On Linux or OS X: pip install -U pip   On Windows (this works around (https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1299) an issue ): python -m pip install -U pip     (/a/19404371) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:2f8203c452790783,10:1725340975,16:58bd706ee51fdb22,8:19404371,4543ea4190d1edbee80b2a8c26855b0c4aac2cd3de23ac2edd8c9feb6ecd561a)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/19404371/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2024-02-23 13:43:29Z) Feb 23 at 13:43    (/users/3015186/niko-fohr) (Niko Fohr's user avatar)    (/users/3015186/niko-fohr) Niko Fohr (reputation score 32,360) 32.4k (11 gold badges)  11  11 gold badges (105 silver badges)  105  105 silver badges (111 bronze badges)  111  111 bronze badges     answered (2013-10-16 13:10:54Z) Oct 16, 2013 at 13:10   (/users/260480/janusz-skonieczny) (Janusz Skonieczny's user avatar)    (/users/260480/janusz-skonieczny) Janusz Skonieczny Janusz Skonieczny (reputation score 18,652) 18.7k (11 gold badges)  11  11 gold badges (57 silver badges)  57  57 silver badges (64 bronze badges)  64  64 bronze badges        28 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 8   @DanH run pip install --upgrade pip ! – (/users/177712/r3m0t) (1,870 reputation) r3m0t  Commented (2014-03-19 16:51:33Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Mar 19, 2014 at 16:51      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 22   This is the true answer, it's just the option was added quite a bit after the accepted answer. – (/users/146821/bukzor) (38,206 reputation) bukzor  Commented (2014-04-06 17:57:18Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Apr 6, 2014 at 17:57      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 8   What's the difference between --install-option="--prefix=$PREFIX_PATH" mentioned by @Ian Bicking and the --target=$PATH option? – (/users/279335/hibou57) (7,090 reputation) Hibou57  Commented (2014-08-15 15:49:44Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Aug 15, 2014 at 15:49      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 8   target is a pip option, and everything you put in install-option will be passed on to the setup.py install command . Basically target is custom site-packages location. – (/users/260480/janusz-skonieczny) (18,652 reputation) Janusz Skonieczny  Commented (2014-08-18 09:19:53Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Aug 18, 2014 at 9:19      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 17   Using --target may result in a partial installation, since it will not install any including scripts/data files in the specified prefix. It seems like passing --prefix with --install-option is the only proper way to have full control over the used installations prefix. – (/users/1467322/kenneth-hoste) (2,955 reputation) Kenneth Hoste  Commented (2015-01-26 11:11:12Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jan 26, 2015 at 11:11        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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Is there a way to specify specific directory? – (/users/95735/piotr-dobrogost) (42,181 reputation) Piotr Dobrogost  Commented (2012-06-02 22:04:36Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jun 2, 2012 at 22:04      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   @Piotr: yes there is see my answer. Using '--prefix' is a bit coarse, but works nice if you want your pure python to go under /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages instead of /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. – (/users/1307905/anthon) (75,050 reputation) Anthon  Commented (2012-06-13 14:39:11Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jun 13, 2012 at 14:39      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 125   Not a bad answer 4 years ago, but the --target option exists now. – (/users/2803281/tritium21) (2,894 reputation) Tritium21  Commented (2014-09-28 18:20:50Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 28, 2014 at 18:20        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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Instead of the --target or --install-options options, I have found that setting the (https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONUSERBASE) PYTHONUSERBASE  environment variable works well (from discussion on a (https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/446) bug regarding this very thing): PYTHONUSERBASE=/path/to/install/to pip install --user   (Or set the PYTHONUSERBASE directory in your environment before running the command, using export PYTHONUSERBASE=/path/to/install/to ) This uses the very useful --user option but tells it to make the bin , lib , share and other directories you'd expect under a custom prefix rather than $HOME/.local . Then you can add this to your PATH , (https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONPATH) PYTHONPATH  and other variables as you would a normal installation directory. Note that you may also need to specify the --upgrade and --ignore-installed options if any packages upon which this depends require newer versions to be installed in the PYTHONUSERBASE directory, to override the system-provided versions.  A full example PYTHONUSERBASE=/opt/mysterypackage-1.0 /python-deps pip install --user --upgrade numpy scipy   ..to install the scipy and numpy package most recent versions into a directory which you can then include in your PYTHONPATH like so (using bash and for python 2.6 on CentOS 6 for this example): export PYTHONPATH=/opt/mysterypackage-1.0 /python-deps/lib64/python2.6 /site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
export PATH=/opt/mysterypackage-1.0 /python-deps/bin :$PATH   Using (https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/) virtualenv is still a better and neater solution!    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To pip install a library exactly where I wanted it, I navigated to the location I wanted the directory with the terminal then used pip install mylibraryName -t .   the logic of which I took from this page: (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlecloudstorageclient/download) https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlecloudstorageclient/download    (/a/32316983) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:77bb07f92f78173e,10:1725340975,16:4c4ed74ddee9b5f1,8:32316983,cff0058d5fe455bb66a009bd2a8d83fbb3454b14f004d8ddb60060f8c5e7ea77)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2015-08-31 17:46:36Z) Aug 31, 2015 at 17:46     user2738183user2738183        2 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 14   -t is shorthand for --target  – (/users/3176550/jonathan) (11,257 reputation) Jonathan  Commented (2016-09-27 14:11:07Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 27, 2016 at 14:11        This was the only solution which worked for me. (Windows 7) – (/users/4636579/coliban) (631 reputation) Coliban  Commented (2019-07-30 11:59:21Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jul 30, 2019 at 11:59        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:80d54ff95d7085be,10:1725340975,16:b2a1ebd016c3c431,8:11017307,e784ae0179a67f4b6a36ef900047ca40cf9e020650e2242def413ce42fb232f5) 46  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:e95538a0ea55c4b5,10:1725340975,16:112112e1be3c9841,8:11017307,0e1f1ba52d4cecedc7b864cedd04d16246fb4460ed29eeec54d3743d0980ff1e)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/11017307/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    Installing a Python package often only includes some pure Python files. If the package includes data, scripts and or executables, these are installed in different directories from the pure Python files. Assuming your package has no data/scripts/executables, and that you want  your Python files to go into /python/packages/package_name (and not some subdirectory a few levels below /python/packages as when using --prefix ), you can use the one time command: pip install --install-option="--install-purelib=/python/packages" package_name   If you want all (or most) of your packages to go there, you can edit your ~/.pip/pip.conf to include: [install]
install-option=--install-purelib=/python/packages   That way you can't forget about having to specify it again and again. Any excecutables/data/scripts included in the package will still go to their default places unless you specify addition install options (--prefix /--install-data /--install-scripts , etc., for details look at the (http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#custom-installation) custom installation options).   (/a/11017307) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:8536f29b2ed66337,10:1725340975,16:922eb37f4926fecd,8:11017307,46b5c4af2ee95307b7694df12a6a0564a582f33f827f1005e85fd1a946bacbc8)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/11017307/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2015-12-08 20:53:06Z) Dec 8, 2015 at 20:53    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) (Peter Mortensen's user avatar)    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) Peter Mortensen (reputation score 31,472) 31.5k (22 gold badges)  22  22 gold badges (109 silver badges)  109  109 silver badges (132 bronze badges)  132  132 bronze badges     answered (2012-06-13 14:39:44Z) Jun 13, 2012 at 14:39   (/users/1307905/anthon) (Anthon's user avatar)    (/users/1307905/anthon) Anthon Anthon (reputation score 75,050) 75.1k (34 gold badges)  34  34 gold badges (200 silver badges)  200  200 silver badges (271 bronze badges)  271  271 bronze badges        2 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   A big plus for the config file. I personally specify the --prefix there, because I have a "local" directory on a shared server in the home directory, and it was used as the prefix by easy_install before I moved to pip . System $PATH and $PYTHONPATH were configured before. Instead of install-option=--install-purelib=/blah there is this newer target=/blah option/switch. It is also nice, but sometimes you need just a replacement for --prefix , that you'd use with setup.py or easy_install . – (/users/1338797/tomasz-gandor) (8,673 reputation) Tomasz Gandor  Commented (2013-12-13 10:10:41Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Dec 13, 2013 at 10:10        ERROR: Location-changing options found in --install-option: ['--install-purelib'] from command line. This is unsupported, use pip-level options like --user, --prefix, --root, and --target instead. , with pip 22.0.4 – (/users/1047788/user7610) (27,963 reputation) user7610  Commented (2022-04-29 11:25:10Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Apr 29, 2022 at 11:25        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:247fd0d175f158ec,10:1725340975,16:d1af196e3fcf027c,8:53870246,e11227f2b9eaa9422317851cf37f8b4957a59020ce881650ded9775e6a8710d6) 37  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:c7d5e1091f83ee89,10:1725340975,16:20fd4b05022f59ee,8:53870246,bd8ebb54eb697fa4aa48321fa35a7fb8de52dd545c7b841ea582076eaad496d9)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/53870246/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    Tested these options with python3.5 and pip 9.0.3: pip install --target /myfolder [packages]  Installs ALL packages including dependencies under /myfolder. Does not take into account that dependent packages are already installed elsewhere in Python. You will find packages from /myfolder/[package_name]. In case you have multiple Python versions, this doesn't take that into account (no Python version in package folder name). pip install --prefix /myfolder [packages]  Checks if dependencies are already installed. Will install packages into /myfolder/lib/python3.5/site-packages/[packages] pip install --root /myfolder [packages]  Checks dependencies like --prefix but install location will be /myfolder/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/[package_name]. pip install --user [packages]  Will install packages into $HOME:
/home/[USER]/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages
Python searches automatically from this .local path so you don't need to put it to your PYTHONPATH. => In most of the cases --user is the best option to use.
In case home folder can't be used because of some reason then --prefix.   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Is there any difference betseen using --user and setting $PYTHONUSERBASE vs using --prefix and setting $PYTHONPATH ? – (/users/651246/seppo-enarvi) (3,525 reputation) Seppo Enarvi  Commented (2022-12-22 13:23:00Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Dec 22, 2022 at 13:23        What I found my python3 pipe install --prefix /mydir, then the package will be installed unser /mydir/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages.  I am not sure where you can control the default behavior which is not desirable.  I want the local to be missing and the dist-package to be site-package – (/users/2407363/kemin-zhou) (6,731 reputation) Kemin Zhou  Commented (2024-01-19 21:31:44Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jan 19 at 21:31        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) 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(Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/61731693/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    pip install "package_name" -t "target_dir"   source - (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/) https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/  -t switch = target   (/a/61731693) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:00b13b7f2a409d6d,10:1725340975,16:91a5ad8dbf6f1c48,8:61731693,02b602f6590579a0029785bd58f003a12c5a52bd83927e4b52897b686120334c)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/61731693/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2023-07-26 03:35:33Z) Jul 26, 2023 at 3:35         answered (2020-05-11 14:09:08Z) May 11, 2020 at 14:09   (/users/8312897/samir-kape) (Samir Kape's user avatar)    (/users/8312897/samir-kape) Samir Kape Samir Kape (reputation score) 1,977 (2 gold badges)  2  2 gold badges (18 silver badges)  18  18 silver badges (21 bronze badges)  21  21 bronze badges        1 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   @merv it's different because it's not the same. isn't it? – (/users/8959609/alex-m-m) (501 reputation) Alex M.M.  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Nobody seems to have mentioned the -t option but that the easiest: pip install -t <direct directory> <package>     (/a/48875996) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:a912075f9d921b09,10:1725340975,16:7ff6231b6f5ac1e4,8:48875996,b43d3174a3e5586781064caecc1097e64a62e15754d9d1822ddb041c95d4c77a)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2018-02-20 00:02:28Z) Feb 20, 2018 at 0:02   (/users/922704/erwan) (Erwan's user avatar)    (/users/922704/erwan) Erwan Erwan (reputation score) 3,731 (31 silver badges)  31  31 silver badges (25 bronze badges)  25  25 bronze badges        1 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 12   The -t option is the short version of the --target option which has been described in another answer ((https://stackoverflow.com/a/19404371/594053) stackoverflow.com/a/19404371/594053 )  :) – (/users/594053/mattisg) (3,946 reputation) MattiSG  Commented (2018-04-03 05:40:48Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Apr 3, 2018 at 5:40   (this comment was edited 1 time)          (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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(Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/54823014/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    pip install packageName -t pathOfDirectory   or pip install packageName --target pathOfDirectorty     (/a/54823014) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:9e3bb49fc101e9d8,10:1725340975,16:6fb63da6db0dabd4,8:54823014,2f26cf4140e2d783e3cafcfe5ef238cb874346cf4cd4d8b8c3be95aa4c1600eb)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/54823014/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2019-02-22 09:06:38Z) Feb 22, 2019 at 9:06    (/users/6296561/zoe-save-the-data-dump) (Zoe - Save the data dump's user avatar)    (/users/6296561/zoe-save-the-data-dump) Zoe - Save the data dump (Moderator) ♦ (reputation score 28,041) 28k (22 gold badges)  22  22 gold badges (127 silver badges)  127  127 silver badges (157 bronze badges)  157  157 bronze badges     answered (2019-02-22 08:35:45Z) Feb 22, 2019 at 8:35   (/users/8241863/kundan-kaushik) (kundan kaushik's user avatar)    (/users/8241863/kundan-kaushik) kundan kaushik kundan kaushik (reputation score) 217 (2 silver badges)  2  2 silver badges (11 bronze badges)  11  11 bronze badges        1 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   This is a duplicate of (https://stackoverflow.com/a/19404371/12892) another answer . – (/users/12892/cristian-ciupitu) (20,760 reputation) Cristian Ciupitu  Commented (2022-02-18 22:38:08Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Feb 18, 2022 at 22:38   (this comment was edited 1 time)          (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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As the install failed it didn't seem to write the IPython files in the bin directory. Using "--user" worked and the files were written to ~/.local. Adding ~/.local/bin to the $PATH meant I could use "ipython" from there. However I'm trying to install this for a number of users and had been given write permission to the /usr/local/lib/python2.7 directory. I created a "bin" directory under there and set directives for distutils: vim ~/.pydistutils.cfg

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install-data=/usr/local/lib/python2.7 install-scripts=/usr/local/lib/python2.7 /bin   then (-I is used to force the install despite previous failures/.local install): pip install -I ipython   Then I added /usr/local/lib/python2.7/bin to $PATH . I thought I'd include this in case anyone else has similar issues on a machine they don't have sudo access to.   (/a/30532099) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:61a49b6b0055f126,10:1725340975,16:17ab5d989bef30b4,8:30532099,6f855bca3d3f3f1b14dc51e32b78d4f16379915f525ca0150d2a5ac2254cf855)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/30532099/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2015-12-08 20:57:42Z) Dec 8, 2015 at 20:57    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) (Peter Mortensen's user avatar)    (/users/63550/peter-mortensen) Peter Mortensen (reputation score 31,472) 31.5k (22 gold badges)  22  22 gold badges (109 silver badges)  109  109 silver badges (132 bronze badges)  132  132 bronze badges     answered (2015-05-29 14:24:14Z) May 29, 2015 at 14:24   (/users/123064/stuart-brock) (Stuart Brock's user avatar)    (/users/123064/stuart-brock) Stuart Brock Stuart Brock (reputation score) 3,844 (1 gold badge)  1  1 gold badge (23 silver badges)  23  23 silver badges (21 bronze badges)  21  21 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:12a107af84579bdc,10:1725340975,16:75b4e921a3c3284b,8:52368803,b2d6589b1f0bb11f3ca85e4380733762e6a11df97010ec08f8fff463954748dd) 2  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:78d283d6ab395070,10:1725340975,16:3a4417c4a632908f,8:52368803,5f524c10093d6cf80e13016dd858a60d11f5377ae83df3005c762271e082f2ca)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/52368803/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    If you are using brew with python, unfortunately, pip/pip3 ships with very limited options. You do not have --install-option, --target, --user options as mentioned above. (https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python) Note on pip install --user The normal pip install --user is disabled for brewed Python. This is because of a bug in distutils, because Homebrew writes a distutils.cfg which sets the package prefix.
  A possible workaround (which puts executable scripts in ~/Library/Python/./bin) is: python -m pip install --user --install-option="--prefix=" <package-name>    You might find this line very cumbersome. I suggest use pyenv for management. 
If you are using  brew upgrade python python3  Ironically you are actually downgrade pip functionality. (I post this answer, simply because pip in my mac osx does not have --target option, and I have spent hours fixing it)   (/a/52368803) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:1f01745789f3cbbb,10:1725340975,16:3eba525c4920f375,8:52368803,7fd92114e44c7fc846d4b59260f4a95831f0d46c7d971dab4914a473905ca02a)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/52368803/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2018-09-17 13:28:35Z) Sep 17, 2018 at 13:28         answered (2018-09-17 13:22:47Z) Sep 17, 2018 at 13:22   (/users/6710360/anonymous) (anonymous's user avatar)    (/users/6710360/anonymous) anonymous anonymous (reputation score) 1,472 (2 gold badges)  2  2 gold badges (19 silver badges)  19  19 silver badges (22 bronze badges)  22  22 bronze badges        1   This answer with an explicit prefix, and ignore-installed due to previous efforts, worked for me: python -m pip install --user --install-option="--prefix='/myFunkyApp/lib'" --ignore-installed <package-name>  – (/users/5324657/jeremy-jones) (5,391 reputation) Jeremy Jones  Commented (2019-08-28 16:00:02Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Aug 28, 2019 at 16:00   (this comment was edited 2 times)          (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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Try f.i., $ pip install --root=/alternative/prefix/path package_name     (/a/25366225) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:ed4f7244c8cb7122,10:1725340975,16:66f0263df6e2f9e6,8:25366225,f04e3f1ea0bb0203b74f71cb33c7d7bc935c049d997d23efb80ed7a52fc9bfd8)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2014-08-18 14:53:25Z) Aug 18, 2014 at 14:53   (/users/1199891/sphakka) (sphakka's user avatar)    (/users/1199891/sphakka) sphakka sphakka (reputation score) 489 (5 silver badges)  5  5 silver badges (12 bronze badges)  12  12 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) 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install-base=$HOME
install-purelib=python/lib
install-platlib=python/lib.$PLAT
install-scripts=python/scripts
install-headers=python/include
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logout
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Sometimes it works only works with Cache argument -m pip install -U pip --target=C:\xxx\python\lib\site-packages Pillow --cache-dir C:\tmp     (/a/74950124) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:d2cedb8daec8f161,10:1725340975,16:5e001ce3856a8f44,8:74950124,777723a33ef1d204cc10e944ba22690a1e48df57783ca31114fd32f76f9ece07)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2022-12-29 10:47:01Z) Dec 29, 2022 at 10:47   (/users/1163485/dazzafact) (dazzafact's user avatar)    (/users/1163485/dazzafact) dazzafact dazzafact (reputation score) 2,794 (3 gold badges)  3  3 gold badges (32 silver badges)  32  32 silver badges (51 bronze badges)  51  51 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) 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Use: pip install package_name -t directory_path  If you get the following error: ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--target'  Use: pip install package_name -t directory_path --no-user  e.g. pip install pandas -t C:\Users\user\Desktop\Family\test --no-user    (/a/77509858) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     Follow (70:3:31e,16:292e836d411b765e,10:1725340975,16:f88278cc07db4a39,8:77509858,1a502e94e5cfa3ee3dcd7eab1dd5d598df78e487f9f6aab538dc2f5d9a69dfdd)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2023-11-19 06:32:38Z) Nov 19, 2023 at 6:32   (/users/11781859/vaibhav-kabdwal) (Vaibhav Kabdwal's user avatar)    (/users/11781859/vaibhav-kabdwal) Vaibhav Kabdwal Vaibhav Kabdwal (reputation score) 91 (6 bronze badges)  6  6 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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