How to install a module for all users with pip on linux?

Question

How to install a package in the standard python environment i.e. /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages using pip and make this new packag

Answer 1

Use the --target option when calling pip

pip install --target=/your/pyinstalldir loremipsum

The target directory must be a location writable by your user.

Note that this requires the regular user environment has the target directory present in the sys.path. One possible way to achieve that is by using the PYTHONPATH env var:

# /etc/profile.d/myenvvars.sh
export PYTHONPATH=/your/pyinstalldir