What is pip's `--no-cache-dir` good for?

Question

I\'ve recently seen the --no-cache-dir being used in a Docker file. I\'ve never seen that flag before and the help is not explaining it:

 --no-cache         


        

Answer 1

I get permission error for installation of some pip packages if I don't use --no-cache-dir option.

Building wheels for collected packages: pyyaml, bottleneck, nvidia-ml-py3
  WARNING: Building wheel for pyyaml failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/b1'
  WARNING: Building wheel for bottleneck failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/92'
  WARNING: Building wheel for nvidia-ml-py3 failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/7f'

chown /.cache folder didn't help for some reason but with --no-cache-dir it works ok.