How to use Python's pip to download and keep the zipped files for a package?

Question

If I want to use the pip command to download a package (and its dependencies), but keep all of the zipped files that get downloaded (say, django-social

Answer 1

I always do this to download the packages:

pip install --download /path/to/download/to_packagename

OR

pip install --download=/path/to/packages/downloaded -r requirements.txt

And when I want to install all of those libraries I just downloaded, I do this:

pip install --no-index --find-links="/path/to/downloaded/dependencies" packagename

OR

pip install --no-index --find-links="/path/to/downloaded/packages" -r requirements.txt

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Update

Also, to get all the packages installed on one system, you can export them all to requirement.txt that will be used to intall them on another system, we do this:

pip freeze > requirement.txt

Then, the requirement.txt can be used as above for download, or do this to install them from requirement.txt:

pip install -r requirement.txt

REFERENCE: pip installer