How to install Python packages from the tar.gz file without using pip install

Question

Long story short my work computer has network constraints which means trying to use pip install in cmd just leads to timing out/not finding package errors.

For example; when I try to pip install seaborn:

Instead I have tried to download the tar.gz file of the packages I want, however, I do not know how to install them. I've extracted the files from the tar.gz file and there is a "setup" file within but it's not doing much for me.

If someone could explain how to install python packages in this manner without using pip install on windows that would be amazing.

Solution 1

Thanks to the answers below combined I've got it working.

• First needed to unpack the tar.gz file into a folder.
• Then before running python setup.py install had to point cmd towards the correct folder. I did this by pushd C:\Users\absolutefilepathtotarunpackedfolder
• Then run python setup.py install

Thanks Tales Padua & Hugo Honorem

Solution 2

You may use pip for that without using the network. See in the docs (search for "Install a particular source archive file"). Any of those should work:

pip install relative_path_to_seaborn.tar.gz    
pip install absolute_path_to_seaborn.tar.gz    
pip install file:///absolute_path_to_seaborn.tar.gz    

Or you may uncompress the archive and use setup.py directly with either pip or python:

cd directory_containing_tar.gz
tar -xvzf seaborn-0.10.1.tar.gz
pip install seaborn-0.10.1
python setup.py install

Of course, you should also download required packages and install them the same way before you proceed.

Solution 3

You can install a tarball without extracting it first. Just navigate to the directory containing your .tar.gz file from your command prompt and enter this command:

pip install my-tarball-file-name.tar.gz

I am running python 3.4.3 and this works for me. I can't tell if this would work on other versions of python though.

Solution 4

Install it by running

python setup.py install

Better yet, you can download from github. Install git via apt-get install git and then follow this steps:

git clone https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn.git
cd seaborn
python setup.py install

Solution 5

For those of you using python3 you can use:

python3 setup.py install

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Comments

[yenoolnairb]

This gives the following error: You must give at least one requirement to install (maybe you meant "pip install file:///absolute path.."?)

[yenoolnairb]

and I have actually entered the path in case you're wondering!

[yenoolnairb]

No such file or directory This could be to do with the setup of my files and folders. Python isn't gonna be in the default place Python would normally install

[Deusdeorum]

Okey, so he could use another unzipper like 7-zip, it's pretty irrelevant what unzipper he uses..

[Tales Pádua]

unpack from tar, go to the folder where the setup.py is, and then run the command above

[yenoolnairb]

Do I need to amend the code above to point it directly to where the unpacked tar is? Cos I'm still getting no such file or directory

[Deusdeorum]

might be, anyhow, the instructions are: unzip the folder -> change dictionary in your command line into that folder -> execute python setup.py install

[Tales Pádua]

Unpack the tar.gz to somewhere. Then, from the terminal, go to the folder where you extracted it. You need to be on the folder where setup.py is, and then run this command

[yenoolnairb]

Unfortunatley github is blocked on my work computer!! I've got it working now though; thanks

[Tales Pádua]

Can you edit the PATH variables of your machine? If so, you can add python to it, and use python anywhere without need to use pushd

[Jérôme]

You can also use pip + git but I assumed network issues ruled out this option.

[Sнаđошƒаӽ]

Actually you don't have to extract the tar.gz file to install it. Take a look at my answer

[Magic_Matt_Man]

Running this on python 3.4.3 and pip 9.0.1 I get an error relating to a temp file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-anjip21-build/setup.py running on Jessie (raspberry pi 3)

[Hawkins]

If you can download on another machine and bring them over, it's possible to download each dependency you need and install them in this manner in such an order that the desired package has all dependencies met and does not need a network connection anymore. I.e., A depends on B. So install B, then A.

[Sнаđошƒаӽ]

@Magic See the examples in official docs. So it should work. From the error message you showed it seems the tarball you are trying to install isn't following proper file naming conventions.

[adin]

This works perfect for situations where using pip generates error(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host')

[Lev]

pip install *.tar.gz will install all the packages in the directory... just trying to help:)

[Bill Wallis]

I was getting a whole host of different errors using the other solutions -- this was the only solution that worked for me