[Tutor] using easy_install to download eggs

[Rüdiger Wolf]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/529425/easyinstall-cache-downloaded-files

pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/) is a drop-in replacement for the
easy_install tool and can do that.

Just run easy_install pip and set an environment variable
PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE to the path you want pip to store the files. Note
that the cache won't work with dependencies that checkout from a source
code repository (like svn/git/hg/bzr).

Then use pip install instead of easy_install




On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:41 +0000, "Tim Michelsen"
<timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to use easy_install to cache packages registered at PyPi
> locally.
> 
> How can I do this for packages?
> 
> I tried the hints from:
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-on-un-networked-machines
> 
> It worked for some packages.
> But for others, the command
> 
> easy_install -zxad. mercurial
> 
> just creates a subdirectory and not an *.egg file.
> 
> How can I
> 1) use easy_install to download packages from PyPi to a locally saved
> egg-file?
> 2) use easy_install to download archinves (*.tar.gz / *.zip) to download
> the
> respective software package from the link indicated on PyPi?
>