How do I install a .whl file in a PyCharm virtualenv?

Question

The package manager in Project Interpreter doesn't appear to have any way for me to run a pure pip command so I'm unable to install the wheel as I normally would through command line.

Running through command line installs the wheel on my base python install and not the virtualenv. Help?

Solution 1

To install via your command line, and avoid installing on your base Python, you'll have to first activate the virtualenv.

You can do this on POSIX using:

$ source path_to_your_venv/bin/activate

And then for Windows systems:

> path_to_venv\Scripts\activate

You can then install the .whl file with pip install filename.whl while the virtual env has been activated.

Solution 2

You can install it from PyCharm's Python console with the pip module :

import pip

def install_whl(path):
    pip.main(['install', path])

install_whl("path/to/file.whl")

Solution 3

My environment is Windows 7 and Python 2.7.12.

Steps to install whl packages into venv:

1. Search package on Python Extension Packages for Windows - Christoph Gohlke
2. Download package, for example, mysqlclient‑1.3.13‑cp27‑cp27m‑win32.whl to C:\Root\python\whls\mysqlclient‑1.3.13‑cp27‑cp27m‑win32.whl
3. Open PyCharm Python Console and execute script below:

import pip
from pip._internal import main as pipmain


def install_whl(path):
    pipmain(['install', path])


install_whl('C:\Root\python\whls\mysqlclient-1.3.13-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl')

Comments

[Nils Werner]

Have you tried using the PyCharm GUI for installing packages?

[elethan]

Related (but doesn't seem to be delicate, and has no accepted answer): stackoverflow.com/questions/28663601/…

[AidenWebb]

Thanks Moses, this did the trick. For Pycharm venv's the path is 'path_to_venv/Scripts/activate.bat

[Moses Koledoye]

@Awebb I didn't remember it was windows. I updated :)

[Clément F]

Inspired from : stackoverflow.com/questions/12332975/…

[Comrade Che]

pip.main() only available before 10.0.0 version

[wawawa]

I'm able to install the wheel from local dir but couldn't install it from PyCharm, why is that?