Pythonpath is still ignored and unable to install locally with pip
问题 I'm finding that my pythonpath environment variable is ignored. I'm using python 2.6 on ubuntu. I have in my .bashrc the following: export PTYHONPATH=/my/home/mylibs/lib/python2.6/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH Then I install a new version of numpy using: python setup.py install --prefix=/my/home/mylibs/ and it gets correctly installed locally. However, when I try to install other packages (also using setup.py ) that depend on the new version of numpy, they cannot find it, because by default the