Plain pip install not working for me

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Plain pip install not working for me

mriehl opened this issue 10 years ago · 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.

Joakim Hamrén · Answer 1 · Fri Apr 04 2014 01:50:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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.

Maximilien Riehl · Answer 2 · Fri Apr 04 2014 02:50:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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?

Joakim Hamrén · Answer 3 · Fri Apr 04 2014 03:48:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sure, go ahead, would be great :)

Joakim Hamrén · Answer 4 · Fri Apr 04 2014 15:39:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Documented by merged pull request #15.