PIP package install in different directory

Asked Feb 17 '15 at 04:53

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I have a router running openwrt. I've installed python and pip on it. I only have have about 25mb free memory in the / partition however I have a usb flash drive mounted at /mnt/sad1 with 2gb.

Currently when I install any pip package it goes goes in the / partition and that makes me run out of space very quickly. I'm trying to install flexget using pip but would like to install everything for that package i.e. all dependencies etc on the usb drive.

How can I make pip install flexget on the usb partition instead?

EDIT: I was able to workaround it. I used "easy_install" to install flexget instead of PIP. First i had to export the new location into Python's path by running:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/mnt/sda1

Then installed flexget on the USB:

easy_install -d /mnt/sda1/ flexget

I also added the above export command in Openwrt's startup so that path is always there at bootups.

edited Feb 17 '15 at 16:03

asked Feb 17 '15 at 04:53

Ali Raza

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2915471/install-a-python-package-into-a-different-directory-using-pip – cel Feb 17 '15 at 07:05
You can add `--user` to install to your home directory. – David Ehrmann Feb 17 '15 at 16:14

PIP package install in different directory

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