I'm having trouble installing a Python package on my Windows machine, and would like to install it with Christoph Gohlke's Window binaries. (Which, to my experience, alleviated much of the fuss for many other package installations). However, only .whl files are available.
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#jpype
But how do I install .whl files?
Notes
I've found documents on wheel, but they don't seem so staightforward in explaining how to install .whl files.
This question is a duplicate with this question, which wasn't directly answered.
I just used the following which was quite simple. First open a console then cd to where you've downloaded your file like some-package.whl and use
pip install some-package.whl
Note: if pip.exe is not recognized, you may find it in the "Scripts" directory from where python has been installed. If pip is not installed, this page can help:
How do I install pip on Windows?
Note: for clarification
If you copy the *.whl file to your local drive (ex. C:\some-dir\some-file.whl) use the following command line parameters --
pip install C:/some-dir/some-file.whl
First, make sure you have updated pip to enable wheel support:
pip install --upgrade pip
Then, to install from wheel, give it the directory where the wheel is downloaded. For example, to install package_name.whl:
pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=/where/its/downloaded package_name
There are several file versions on the great Christoph Gohlke's site.
Something I have found important when installing wheels from this site is to first run this from the Python console:
import pip
print(pip.pep425tags.get_supported())
so that you know which version you should install for your computer. Picking the wrong version may fail the installing of the package (especially if you don't use the right CPython tag, for example, cp27).
I am in the same boat as the OP.
Using a Windows command prompt, from directory:
C:\Python34\Scripts>
pip install wheel
seemed to work.
Changing directory to where the whl was located, it just tells me 'pip is not recognized'. Going back to C:\Python34\Scripts>, then using the full command above to provide the 'where/its/downloaded' location, it says Requirement 'scikit_image-...-win32.whl' looks like a filename, but the filename does not exist.
So I dropped a copy of the .whl in Python34/Scripts, ran the exact same command over again (with the --find-links= still going to the other folder), and this time it worked.
There's a slight difference between accessing the .whl file in python2 and python3. In python3, you need to install wheel first and then you can access .whl files.
Python3
pip install package.whl
OR
pip install wheel
And then by using wheel
wheel unpack some-package.whl
Python2
pip install some-package.whl
You have to run pip.exe from the command prompt on my computer.
I type C:/Python27/Scripts/pip2.exe install numpy
On Windows you can't just upgrade using pip install --upgrade pip, because the pip.exe is in use and there would be an error replacing it. Instead, you should upgrade pip like this:
easy_install --upgrade pip
Then check the pip version:
pip --version
If it shows 6.x series, there is wheel support.
Only then, you can install a wheel package like this:
pip install your-package.whl
To be able to install wheel files with a simple doubleclick on them you can do one the following:
1) Run two commands in command line under administrator privileges:
assoc .whl=pythonwheel
ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install "%1" ^& pause
2) Alternatively, they can be copied into a wheel.bat file and executed with 'Run as administrator' checkbox in the properties.
PS pip.exe is assumed to be in the PATH.
Update:
(1) Those can be combined in one line:
assoc .whl=pythonwheel& ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install -U "%1" ^& pause
(2) Syntax for .bat files is slightly different:
assoc .whl=pythonwheel& ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install -U "%%1" ^& pause
Also its output can be made more verbose:
#assoc .whl=pythonwheel|| echo Run me with administrator rights! && pause && exit 1
#ftype pythonwheel=cmd /c pip.exe install -U "%%1" ^& pause || echo Installation error && pause && exit 1
#echo Installation successfull & pause
see my blog post for details.
In-case if you unable to install specific package directly using PIP.
You can download a specific .whl (wheel) package from - https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
CD (Change directory) to that downloaded package and install it manually by -
pip install PACKAGENAME.whl
ex:
pip install ad3‑2.1‑cp27‑cp27m‑win32.whl
EDIT: THIS NO LONGER IS A PART OF PIP
To avoid having to download such files, you can try:
pip install --use-wheel pillow
For more information, see this.
You can install the .whl file, using pip install filename. Though to use it in this form, it should be in the same directory as your command line, otherwise specify the complete filename, along with its address like pip install C:\Some\PAth\filename.
Also make sure the .whl file is of the same platform as you are using, do a python -V to find out which version of Python you are running and if it is win32 or 64, install the correct version according to it.
The only way I managed to install NumPy was as follows:
I downloaded NumPy from here
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy
This Module
https://pypi.python.org/packages/d7/3c/d8b473b517062cc700575889d79e7444c9b54c6072a22189d1831d2fbbce/numpy-1.11.2-cp35-none-win32.whl#md5=e485e06907826af5e1fc88608d0629a2
Command execution from Python's installation path in PowerShell
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Python35-32> .\python -m pip install C:/Users/MyUsername/Documents/Programs/Python/numpy-1.11.2-cp35-none-win32.whl
Processing c:\users\MyUsername\documents\programs\numpy-1.11.2-cp35-none-win32.whl
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy-1.11.2
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Python35-32>
PS.: I installed it on Windows 10.
New Python users on Windows often forget to add Python's \Scripts directory to the PATH variable during the installation. I recommend to use the Python launcher and execute pip as a script with the -m switch. Then you can install the wheels for a specific Python version (if more than one are installed) and the Scripts directory doesn't have to be in the PATH. So open the command line, navigate (with the cd command) to the folder where the .whl file is located and enter:
py -3.6 -m pip install your_whl_file.whl
Replace 3.6 by your Python version or just enter -3 if the desired Python version appears first in the PATH. And with an active virtual environment: py -m pip install your_whl_file.whl.
Of course you can also install packages from PyPI in this way, e.g.
py -3.6 -m pip install pygame
I would be suggesting you the exact way how to install .whl file.
Initially I faced many issues but then I solved it, Here is my trick to install .whl files.
Follow The Steps properly in order to get a module imported
Make sure your .whl file is kept in the python 2.7/3.6/3.7/.. folder.
Initially when you download the .whl file the file is kept in downloaded folder, my
suggestion is to change the folder. It makes it easier to install the file.
Open command prompt and open the folder where you have kept the file by entering
cd c:\python 3.7
3.Now, enter the command written below
>py -3.7(version name) -m pip install (file name).whl
Click enter and make sure you enter the version you are currently using with correct
file name.
Once you press enter, wait for few minutes and the file will be installed and you will
be able to import the particular module.
In order to check if the module is installed successfully, import the module in idle
and check it.
Thank you:)
On the MacOS, with pip installed via MacPorts into the MacPorts python2.7, I had to use #Dunes solution:
sudo python -m pip install some-package.whl
Where python was replaced by the MacPorts python in my case, which is python2.7 or python3.5 for me.
The -m option is "Run library module as script" according to the manpage.
(I had previously run sudo port install py27-pip py27-wheel to install pip and wheel into my python 2.7 installation first.)
What I did was first updating the pip by using the command:
pip install --upgrade pip and then I also installed wheel by using command: pip install wheel and then it worked perfectly Fine.
Hope it works for you I guess.
Download the package (.whl).
Put the file inside the script folder of python directory
C:\Python36\Scripts
Use the command prompt to install the package.
C:\Python36\Scripts>pip install package_name.whl
Theoretically:
Because wheel is a built distribution spec ie, no dependency on a build system and because it's a ZIP-format archive, it just has to be unpacked to the target location in-order to be used.
While pip install *.wheel adds extra features, we can also unzip (using a standard archive tool eg: 7zip) the .whl file into site-packages directory to use the package.
https://packaging.python.org/specifications/binary-distribution-format/
I installed python3.5 on my mac, its installation was automatically. but these days i found there was already python2 on my mac and every module i installed through pip went to /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages.
I find python3 installed location is /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5
Now download a mysql-connector-python and installed it, install location is python2.7/site-packages, when i open pycharm whose default interceptor is python3.5, hence i can not use mysql-connector, so is there any body who know this question?
for mysql-connector installation problem, i found the solution:
Try go to python3 bin directory and find pip method. this pip method can be override by the system python2 pip command, so if you want to install MySQL-python module to python3.x site-packages, you should cd to such bin directory and ./pip install MySQL-python, it can download such module successfully but installed error:ImportError:No module named 'ConfigParser', I google such error and find there is no such module in python3 and we can get its fork version:mysqlclient.
NOTE: In order not to be conflict with system default python2 pip command, cd and go to python3 bin directory and ./pip install mysqlclient and succeed.
I am very new to the world of coding, so I will try to provide as much information as i can regarding to my question.
Essentially, I wanted to install a module (moviepy) for Python 3. The site were I found the module suggested I use pip to unpack and install the module, so I did.
In my terminal, I entered pip install moviepy and pip proceeded to unpack and install my module, yay!
I then went over to my IDLE to see if the module would import, import moviepy, but received this error:
ImportError: No module named 'moviepy'
Huh? I thought I had just installed moviepy?
Upon further investigation, the module appears to have been written to my Python 2.7 site-packages folder and not my in Python 3 site-packages folder.
So my question is: How can I get my module to install to Python 3?
The modules website says that it is compatible with Python 3.
Im assuming this is a file path issue of some kind, but i don't know where to begin.
I'm currently using a OS X Yosemite version 10.10.2, Python 2.7.6, Python 3.5.0
Any help or comments are greatly appreciated here!
Help the n00b!
If you are using python in linux you must run pip with python3:
python3 -m pip install moviepy
according to python official doc :
On Linux, Mac OS X and other POSIX systems, use the versioned Python
commands in combination with the -m switch to run the appropriate copy
of pip:
python2 -m pip install SomePackage # default Python 2
python2.7 -m pip install SomePackage # specifically Python 2.7
python3 -m pip install SomePackage # default Python 3
python3.4 -m pip install SomePackage # specifically Python 3.4
Since pip itself is written in python , you could simply run the following in your terminal:
/path/to/python3 /usr/bin/pip install foo
More info:
To install pip, securely download get-pip.py
Run the following (which may require administrator access):
/path/to/python3 get-pip.py
Try below version of moviepy
pip install moviepy==0.2.3.5
Is there any way to install requests-kerberos on Windows?
When I try to install it with pip I have the following error:
py -m pip install requests-kerberos
ImportError: No module named 'commands'
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-n8s_inn\kerberos
I would be grateful if anyone knew another kerberos module. I'm using Python 3.4 and Windows 8.
Best regards.
The commands module was deprecated in python 2.6.
Thus, the issue appears to be a problem with your pip installation, and not with requests-kerberos.
There are a few things you can try, but I would focus on ensuring pip is working correctly. While you could install the package manually, you are really just pushing the pip problem down the road until the next time you install a package.
Ensure pip is installed correctly.
Use the pip command to ensure you are running pip in the python 3.4 context: (Note, this is my output, yours will be different because you are on Windows and running 3.4)
$ pip --version
pip 1.5.6 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)
Additional information about pip can be found here.
Download and install manually
Download the package manually from the pypi repo.
Download the .tar.gz
Extract the tar.gz and run python setup.py install
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I am trying to add a library in python. The extension is wheel.
Can somebody tell stepwise approach in installing wheel file?
First open a console then cd to where you've downloaded your file like some-package.whl and use
pip install some-package.whl
Note: if pip.exe is not recognized, you may find it in the "Scripts" directory from where python has been installed. I have multiple Python installations, and needed to use the pip associated with Python 3 to install a version 3 wheel.
If pip is not installed, and you are using Windows: How to install pip on Windows?
From How do I install a Python package with a .whl file?
[sic],
How do I install a Python package USING a .whl file ?
For all Windows platforms:
1) Download the .WHL package install file.
2) Make Sure path [C:\Progra~1\Python27\Scripts] is in the system PATH string. This is for using both [pip.exe] and [easy-install.exe].
3) Make sure the latest version of pip.EXE is now installed.
At this time of posting:
pip.EXE --version
pip 9.0.1 from C:\PROGRA~1\Python27\lib\site-packages (python 2.7)
4) Run pip.EXE in an Admin command shell.
- Open an Admin privileged command shell.
> easy_install.EXE --upgrade pip
- Check the pip.EXE version:
> pip.EXE --version
pip 9.0.1 from C:\PROGRA~1\Python27\lib\site-packages (python 2.7)
> pip.EXE install --use-wheel --no-index
--find-links="X:\path to wheel file\DownloadedWheelFile.whl"
Be sure to double-quote paths or path\filenames with embedded spaces in them ! Alternatively, use the MSW 'short' paths and filenames.