Is there a way to install all python modules at once using pip?

Question

I would like to install all available modules for Python 2.7.12 using a single pip command. Is there a way to do this without having to specify every single package name?

Answer 1

I highly recommend against doing this - the overwhelmingly supported best practice is to use a requirements.txt file, listing the packages you want to install specifically.

You then install it with pip install -r requirements.txt and it installs all the packages for your project.

This has several benefits:

• Repeatability by installing only the required packages
• Conciseness

However, if you really do want to install ALL python packages (note that there are thousands), you can do so via the following:

pip search * | grep ")[[:space:]]" | cut -f1 -d" "

I strongly recommend against this as it's likely to do horrible things to your system, as it will attempt to install every python package (and why it's in spoiler tags).