How to change default install location for pip

Question

I\'m trying to install Pandas using pip, but I\'m having a bit of trouble. I just ran sudo pip install pandas which successfully downloaded pandas. However, i

Answer 1

According to pip documentation at

http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/stable/user_guide/#configuration

You will need to specify the default install location within a pip.ini file, which, also according to the website above is usually located as follows

On Unix and Mac OS X the configuration file is: $HOME/.pip/pip.conf

On Windows, the configuration file is: %HOME%\pip\pip.ini

The %HOME% is located in C:\Users\Bob on windows assuming your name is Bob

On linux the $HOME directory can be located by using cd ~

You may have to create the pip.ini file when you find your pip directory. Within your pip.ini or pip.config you will then need to put (assuming your on windows) something like

[global]
target=C:\Users\Bob\Desktop

Except that you would replace C:\Users\Bob\Desktop with whatever path you desire. If you are on Linux you would replace it with something like /usr/local/your/path

After saving the command would then be

pip install pandas

However, the program you install might assume it will be installed in a certain directory and might not work as a result of being installed elsewhere.

Answer 2

You can set the following environment variable:

PIP_TARGET=/path/to/pip/dir

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#environment-variables

Answer 3

Open Terminal and type:

pip config set global.target /Users/Bob/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages

except instead of

/Users/Bob/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages

you would use whatever directory you want.