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Install and use pip in a local directory without root/sudo access.

Install and use pip in a local directory without root/sudo access.

Why?

Many users when are given server access, do not have root (or sudo) privileges and can not simply do sudo apt-get install python-pip . Here's an easy way you can install and use pip without root (or sudo) access in a local directory. Note : This works without easy_install too.

How?

  1. Download pip from an online repository : wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
  2. Install the downloaded package into a local directory : python get-pip.py --user This will install pip to your local directory (.local/bin).
  3. Now you may navigate to this directory (cd .local/bin) and then use pip or better set your $PATH variable this directory to use pip anywhere : PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin followed by source ~/.bashrc to apply the changes.

And that's it. You may now install all python modules you require via pip in a local directory without root.

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wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py --user
cd .local/bin
./pip install <package_name> --user
@kenichi-shibata
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Fixed the formatting for you

Install and use pip in a local directory without root/sudo access.

By: @saurabhshri

Why?

Many users when are given server access, do not have root (or sudo) privileges and can not simply do sudo apt-get install python-pip . Here's an easy way you can install and use pip without root (or sudo) access in a local directory. Note : This works without easy_install too.

How?

Download pip from an online repository : wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Install the downloaded package into a local directory : python get-pip.py --user This will install pip to your local directory (.local/bin).
Now you may navigate to this directory (cd .local/bin) and then use pip or better set your $PATH variable this directory to use pip anywhere : PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin followed by source ~/.bashrc to apply the changes.
And that's it. You may now install all python modules you require via pip in a local directory without root.

Gist of Gist

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && python get-pip.py --user
cd .local/bin
./pip install <package_name> --user

@Moritz90
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@emteeoh @greggman
These days, you should probably be using pipenv instead of managing your virtualenv and your dependencies manually.

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@emteeoh @greggman
These days, you should probably be using pipenv instead of managing your virtualenv and your dependencies manually.

In March of 2018, I tried to use pipenv and ran into many issues with locking. I decided to come back to it later, after a few more releases. It worked great on my local and servers I was the admin for, but where I was just the user it struggled where virtualenv did not. @Moritz90, have you continued to have success in various environments with pipenv?

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I have zero recollection of when I wrote this gist, I just found it back while searching how to do it myself. Sadly Github doesn't notify about gist comments, so I missed the activity here.

@kenichi-shibata Thank you for fixing, I have updated formatting in the gist.

@greggman I have been using virtual environments to manage that too, as suggested by others.

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I am trying to local install through pip using the following command:

# while positioned at the repository's root
pip3 install -e installator

and getting the following error:

installator should either be a path to a local project or a VCS url beginning with svn+, git+, hg+, or bzr+

can you kindly help me with this?

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Qutadah commented Mar 6, 2022

I have zero recollection of when I wrote this gist, I just found it back while searching how to do it myself. Sadly Github doesn't notify about gist comments, so I missed the activity here.

@kenichi-shibata Thank you for fixing, I have updated formatting in the gist.

@greggman I have been using virtual environments to manage that too, as suggested by others.

Can you please share your solution? Thanks!

@DeepaliKushwaha
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I'm getting an error when i run wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
ERROR: no certificate subject alternative name matches requested host name ‘bootstrap.pypa.io’.
To connect to bootstrap.pypa.io insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

So I changed it to wget --no-check-certificate https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py. It worked.

But then python get-pip.py --user again gave error.
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I'm unable to resolve this issue.

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Soma-13 commented Mar 22, 2023

what do we do if it says there is no file found in directory?
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