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title: "Offline Pip Packages"
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date: 2020-01-20T23:11:05-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: [ "Python", "Archive" ]
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medium_enabled: true
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---
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There are a few reasons I can think of to have offline pip packages:
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- A package isn't able to compile on a friend's computer since they don't have the million linear algebra libraries that `numpy` /`scipy` require.
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- You want to archive everything to run a piece of software
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- You want to control the packages available to a closed network
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Regardless, to my surprise, setting up a repository of python wheels doesn't take many steps.
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## Setup
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First I would recommend that you setup a virtual environment. Either through [pyenv](/blog/pyenv/) or [python-virtualenv](/blog/virtualenv/).
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Then, install whatever packages you would like. Let us use tensorflow as an example:
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```bash
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pip install tensorflow
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```
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We're going to need the packages `pip-chill` and `pip-tools` for the next couple steps
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```bash
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pip install pip-chill pip-tools
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```
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After you install all the packages you want to be available, freeze the requirements that aren't dependencies to a text file
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```bash
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pip-chill --no-version > requirements.in
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```
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We will then use `pip-compile` in `pip-tools` to resolve our dependencies and make our packages as fresh as possible.
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```bash
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pip-compile requirements.in
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```
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To sync the current virtual environment with the `requirements.txt` file that gets produced
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```bash
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pip-sync
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```
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Now we have a fully working and resolved environment.
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From here, we need to install the wheel package to make the binary wheels.
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```bash
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pip install wheel
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```
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Then to create the wheels,
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```bash
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pip wheel --wheel-dir=wheels -r requirements.txt
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```
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With this you have a whole repository of wheels under the wheels folder!
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## Client Side
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Now you can get [all fancy with your deployment](https://realpython.com/offline-python-deployments-with-docker/#deploy), though I just assumed that the files were mounted in some shared folder.
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The client can install all the wheels
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```bash
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pip install /path/to/wheels/*
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```
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Or they can just install the packages they want
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```bash
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pip install --no-index -f /path/to/wheels/wheels package_name
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```
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If you don't want to add flags to every command, check out my post on using [configuration files with pip](/blog/pipconf/).
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