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author Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de>
date Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:04:33 +0100
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7 Now I don't have the developer tools installed and I didn't intend to do so - wastes gigabytes of disk space that will hardly ever be used after all. So I tried to get away with the Python that's installed out of the box. 7 Now I don't have the developer tools installed and I didn't intend to do so - wastes gigabytes of disk space that will hardly ever be used after all. So I tried to get away with the Python that's installed out of the box.
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9 Before I can use `pip` it has to be installed. I want to install everything in userspace so first a proper PYTHONPATH has to be set up: 9 Before I can use `pip` it has to be installed. I want to install everything in userspace so first a proper PYTHONPATH has to be set up:
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11 :::shell
11 export PYTHONPATH=/Users/dirk/Python/site-packages 12 export PYTHONPATH=/Users/dirk/Python/site-packages
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13 Then I can go ahead and use `easy_install` to install `pip`: 14 Then I can go ahead and use `easy_install` to install `pip`:
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16 :::shell
15 easy_install --install-dir /Users/dirk/Python/site-packages pip 17 easy_install --install-dir /Users/dirk/Python/site-packages pip
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17 Make sure to add `/Users/dirk/Python` to your PATH so that you can call pip without specifying the full path. 19 Make sure to add `/Users/dirk/Python` to your PATH so that you can call pip without specifying the full path.
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19 Now I can start installing packages: 21 Now I can start installing packages:
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23 :::shell
21 pip install --target /Users/dirk/Python/site-packages <package> 24 pip install --target /Users/dirk/Python/site-packages <package>
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23 This approach has its limitations, though. Since the developer tools aren't installed packages that require compliation of C code won't work. 26 This approach has its limitations, though. Since the developer tools aren't installed packages that require compliation of C code won't work.