Install pyinstaller with no internet access

Question

I'm trying to install pyinstaller on a windows 7 machine with no internet access at all. I've been following the manual as much as I can but I'm totally new to python, pip and whatnot. I downloaded the archive for PyPI and unzipped it to my local drive. After installing PyPiWin32 I CD'd to the pyinstaller folder and ran C:\python27\python setup.py install. It seemed like everything was installing fine but then I got an error that pyinstaller was looking for the "future" package online, and of course couldn't find it...

So then I looked through the manual some more and tried running pip pyinstaller install which now gives me this error Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement future (from pyinstaller) (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for future (from pyinstaller)

So what I assume went wrong (and I'm really not familiar with this) is that I tried an install, it missed some vital package because that was online, and now it is a bit confused. So is there a way to manually install the "future" package or am I just doing this totally wrong?

Answer 1

Looking at their setup.py file they append a separate future package from PyPI, so you need to install that too before installing PyInstaller on Windows.

When in doubt, you can find a required package using this pattern:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/<package>

and mostly (if not in all cases) it'll work just fine, therefore if you have a missing package future, just drop it into this url:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/future

About the future package, it seems they require additional packages on Python 2.6, therefore you'll need importlib and argparse too judging from future's setup.py:

if sys.version_info[:2] == (2, 6):
    REQUIRES += ['importlib', 'argparse']
    TEST_REQUIRES += ['unittest2']

And just a note for installing, it's easier to navigate into a folder with a setup.py file and do:

pip install .

as it installs like it'd with pip install <package> therefore it'll be easier to uninstall a desired package.

In the end you'd do probably better to go for this question's solutions and download all required packages first with the same environment you want to target. Then you'll just point pip to the right folder, or install manually.