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This question explains how to make pip download and save packages. If I follow this formula, Pip will download wheel (.whl) files if available. 

(venv) [user@host glances]$ pip download -d wheelhouse -r build_requirements.txt
Collecting wheel (from -r build_requirements.txt (line 1))
  File was already downloaded /usr_data/tmp/glances/wheelhouse/wheel-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pex (from -r build_requirements.txt (line 2))
  File was already downloaded /usr_data/tmp/glances/wheelhouse/pex-1.1.18-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests (from -r build_requirements.txt (line 3))
  File was already downloaded /usr_data/tmp/glances/wheelhouse/requests-2.12.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pip (from -r build_requirements.txt (line 4))
  File was already downloaded /usr_data/tmp/glances/wheelhouse/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting setuptools (from -r build_requirements.txt (line 5))
  File was already downloaded /usr_data/tmp/glances/wheelhouse/setuptools-32.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Successfully downloaded wheel pex requests pip setuptools

Every single file that it downloaded was a Wheel - but what if I want to get a different kind of file?

I actually want to download the sdist (.tar.gz) files in preference to .whl files? Is there a way to tell Pip what kinds of files I actually want it to get? So instead of getting a directory full of wheels I might want a bunch of tar.gz files.

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Salim Fadhley
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use pip download --no-binary=:all: -r requirements.txt

According to the pip documentation:

--no-binary:

Do not use binary packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either :all: to disable all binary packages, :none: to empty the set, or one or more package names with commas between them. Note that some packages are tricky to compile and may fail to install when this option is used on them.

It worked for me!

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According to pip install -h:

--no-use-wheel Do not Find and prefer wheel archives when searching indexes and find-links locations. DEPRECATED in favour of --no-binary.

And

--no-binary Do not use binary packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either :all: to disable all binary packages, :none: to empty the set, or one or more package

You may need to upgrade pip with pip install -U pip if your version is too old.

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