Problems with installing package from dependency_links

Question

Here is my setup.py:

    setup(
        ...
        install_requires=['GEDThriftStubs'],
        dependency_links=['git+ssh://user@git.server.com/ged-thrift-stubs.git#egg=GEDThriftStubs'],
...)

Then I create package:

python setup.py sdist

Then I try to install it:

pip install file://path/package-0.0.1.tar.gz

And get this in terminal:

Downloading/unpacking GEDThriftStubs (from package==0.0.1)
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement GEDThriftStubs (from package==0.0.1)
No distributions at all found for GEDThriftStubs (from package==0.0.1)

And in pip.log messages like this:

Skipping link git+ssh://user@git.server.com/ged-thrift-stubs.git#egg=GEDThriftStubs; wrong project name (not gedthriftstubs)

And I don't have anywhere in my project that exact name "gedthriftstubs", if it matters.

But this works fine:

pip install git+ssh://user@git.server.com/ged-thrift-stubs.git#egg=GEDThriftStubs

Are you trying `sudo python setup.py sdist` or just `python setup.py sdist`? — Marcello B., Jan 12 '14 at 23:50
I run both commands without sudo under one user and inside one virtualenv. — Tim, Feb 02 '14 at 08:01
possible duplicate of [pip ignores dependency\_links in setup.py](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12518499/pip-ignores-dependency-links-in-setup-py) — Nathaniel, Jun 25 '14 at 18:39

samstav · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-26T21:11:58.367

Try:

$ pip install --process-dependency-links file://path/package-0.0.1.tar.gz

Note that this tag is removed from pip in pip 1.6. See this article on pip.pypa.io for more information.

In pip 1.5 processing dependency links was deprecated and it was removed completely in pip 1.6.

There's also a lengthy discussion ( issue #1519 ) regarding pip & dependency links

If that doesn't work, you may also need to add a version suffix on your link, like this:

git+ssh://user@git.server.com/ged-thrift-stubs.git#egg=GEDThriftStubs-0.0.1

where 0.0.1 is the version specified in the setup.py of ged-thrift-stubs

Problems with installing package from dependency_links

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