How to install Python packages from the tar.gz file without using pip install

Question

Long story short my work computer has network constraints which means trying to use pip install in cmd just leads to timing out/not finding package errors.

Answer 1

Is it possible for you to use sudo apt-get install python-seaborn instead? Basically tar.gz is just a zip file containing a setup, so what you want to do is to unzip it, cd to the place where it is downloaded and use gunzip -c seaborn-0.7.0.tar.gz | tar xf - for linux. Change dictionary into the new seaborn unzipped file and execute python setup.py install