python - 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 easy_install? I'm trying to install the requests library on a FreeBSD box that is not connected to the internet.

Answer 1

On the system that has access to internet

The pip download command lets you download packages without installing them:

pip download -r requirements.txt

(In previous versions of pip, this was spelled pip install --download -r requirements.txt.)

On the system that has no access to internet

Then you can use

pip install --no-index --find-links /path/to/download/dir/ -r requirements.txt

to install those downloaded modules, without accessing the network.