Ways to manually install setuptools

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I'm on windows and want to use python and a few packages, however, due to our policies it is not possible to have admin rights and any fetch requests done by pip (or any other package manager I'd assume) are being blocked.

So far I've downloaded Python (3.9.6) and "installed" it by manually unzipping and setting the PATH env variable. I know that packages can be manually downloaded and installed as well using setup.py, however I also do not have setuptools, so is there any way to manually install that?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 18 '21 at 05:31

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pip doesn't require admin rights just use it with --user.If you want to avoid using pip here the steps

if the folder has setup.py in it

Download the packages and uncompress if needed open folder
holding shift click open with cmd or powershell
run python setup.py install --user or python3 setup.py install --user

if not present setup.py check the install documentation provided by module.

answered Aug 18 '21 at 05:31

WhoEvenCares ToSeeTheName

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I cannot install pip as any fetch within get-pip.py is being blocked by our network and I don't know how to install setuptools without pip, hence I cannot execute any setup.py – RandomDisplayName Aug 18 '21 at 06:06
just download the [setup tools source code](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/archive/refs/tags/v57.4.0.zip) and do the second step – WhoEvenCares ToSeeTheName Aug 19 '21 at 11:06
I hope you have [python path](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3701646/how-to-add-to-the-pythonpath-in-windows-so-it-finds-my-modules-packages) in the path env variable. – WhoEvenCares ToSeeTheName Aug 19 '21 at 11:12
I did, but when executing setup.py of setuptools sourcecode, it tells me that it requires setuptools to run – RandomDisplayName Aug 23 '21 at 14:57

Ways to manually install setuptools

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