Install package which has setup_requires from local source distributions
Take the following trivial package which contains setup_requires: from setuptools import setup setup(name='my_package', setup_requires=['cython']) Assuming I have done the following to build it to a source distribution: $ python setup.py sdist And downloaded the source distribution for Cython $ pip install --download ./dist/ --no-use-wheel Cython So now I have: $ ls dist/ my_package-0.0.0.tar.gz Cython-0.21.1.tar.gz What I'd like to be able to do is install the package on a network-isolated machine using some combination of --find-links , etc. I'd imagine I could do something like pip install