Installing Python Package from Github Using PIP

Question

I've seen it documented that you can install a Github hosting Python package using pip via:

sudo pip install -e git+git://github.com/myuser/myproject.git#egg=myproject

However, this appears to install the package to the current working directory, which is almost never where is should be.

How do you instruct pip to install it into the standard Python package directory (e.g. on Ubuntu this is /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages)?

Jonathan · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-04 10:36:52Z

26

The -e flag tells pip to install it as "editable", i.e. keep the source around. Drop the -e flag and it should do about what you expect.

sudo pip install git+git://github.com/myuser/myproject.git#egg=myproject

If that doesn't work try using https instead of git.

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/myuser/myproject.git#egg=myproject

edited Jun 4, 2015 at 10:36

Jonathan

8,9709 gold badges56 silver badges79 bronze badges

answered Feb 22, 2012 at 20:33

mattbornski

12.6k4 gold badges33 silver badges25 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

6 Comments

Cerin Over a year ago

This is one of the first things I tried. Unfortunately, it just gives me the error "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: /tmp/git+git:/github.com/myuser/myproject.git#egg=myproject"

mattbornski Over a year ago

Can you run pip --version and tell me what it says? Make sure that you check the version of pip that you'll actually be using (if you will be installing inside a virtualenv, then make sure to check the version included in the virtualenv).

Cerin Over a year ago

pip 0.3.1 from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages (python 2.6)

mattbornski Over a year ago

Can you "sudo pip install --upgrade pip" for me? I believe this was a pip bug, and has been fixed several versions ago. For the record, I'm running pip 1.0.2 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

Cerin Over a year ago

Indeed, that was the problem. Upgrading pip fixed it. Thanks.

|

tobias47n9e · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-22 10:57:31Z

2

For Python 3 make sure you have python3-pip installed (and of course git installed):

The syntax just changed to:

sudo pip3 install git+git://github.com/someuser/someproject.git

answered Jan 22, 2015 at 10:57

tobias47n9e

2,2513 gold badges30 silver badges57 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Installing Python Package from Github Using PIP

2 Answers 2

6 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

6 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related