how to install python module without pip after we download the module to local folder

Question

we can download the module - requests , as the following

cd /home/module/
pip download requests
ls -l
certifi-2019.9.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl  chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl  idna-2.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl  requests-2.22.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl  urllib3-1.25.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl

now we can easily to install the module as

pip install *.whl

we can check it by

python -c "import requests"

now - since on some Linux redhat machines we not have pip ( we cant install pip because security reasons )

so we want to install the module without pip

we try

 easy_install --install-dir=/home/module/*

but we get errors , maybe I not use it right ,

so can we get advice how to install the requests module without pip from local folder ?

Answer 1

You could install the module from source:

foo@bar:~/$ git clone https://github.com/psf/requests.git
foo@bar:~/$ cd requests
foo@bar:~/requests$ git checkout v2.22.0
foo@bar:~/requests$ python setup.py install