Plain pip install not working for me
mriehl opened this issue · comments
Hi,
I needed to use
sudo pip2.7 install --allow-external argparse psdash
to get psdash installed.
(I'm on arch linux x64, but that should not matter to pip).
The key here was to add --allow-external psdash
so that pip can pull argparse from an external site (1.2.1 is not available on pypi itself, it seems).
I'm not sure this is a problem on my system, or if the instructions need to be updated.
Hi, you're using a virtualenv right?
EDIT: Nevermind, I just got it when using a virtualenv but it's basically just a design decision in newer versions of pip. I think some documentation of this behaviour should be sufficient for now.
Oh, it's new pip behaviour, all right. That explains why I didn't see this before. I think I remember that deferring to external sites from PyPI is really evil and they wanted to get rid of that.
Would you like me to submit a patch to the README instructions?
Sure, go ahead, would be great :)
Documented by merged pull request #15.