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Citing Marcus Smith (maintainer of pip):

If you think the global site is out of date, and want the latest in the user site, then use:

pip install --upgrade --user SomePackage

If the global site is up to date, and you really just want the same thing duplicated in --user, then use:

pip install --ignore-installed --user SomePackage

(which works correctly now after the merge of #1352, which is to be released in v1.5) How can I make pip install --user always go to ~/.local and not a system-wide directory?

Use both --upgrade and --ignore-installed arguments.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20304268/162264

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