How to install packages offline?

Question

What\'s the best way to download a python package and it\'s dependencies from pypi for offline installation on another machine? Is there any easy way to do this with pip or

Answer 1

Let me go through the process step by step:

1. On a computer connected to the internet, create a folder.

   $ mkdir packages
   $ cd packages

2. open up a command prompt or shell and execute the following command:

   Suppose the package you want is tensorflow

   $ pip download tensorflow

3. Now, on the target computer, copy the packages folder and apply the following command

  $ cd packages
  $ pip install 'tensorflow-xyz.whl' --no-index --find-links '.'

Note that the tensorflow-xyz.whl must be replaced by the original name of the required package.