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Reputation: 921

Boto package installed with pip not showing up in list

Package is boto (Amazon AWS).

(myvirtualenv)$ pip install --target /Users/me/Projects/myproject boto
Downloading/unpacking boto
Downloading boto-2.30.0.tar.gz (7.1MB): 7.1MB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package boto
...
Successfully installed boto
Cleaning up...
(myvirtualenv)$ pip list
bpython (0.12)
Django (1.6.1)
mock (1.0.1)
PIL (1.1.7)
pip (1.4.1)
Pygments (1.6)
python-dateutil (2.2)
selenium (2.39.0)
setuptools (0.9.8)
six (1.4.1)
wsgiref (0.1.2)
(myvirtualenv)$

No boto is listed. Nothing interesting in the pip log.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5013

Answers (2)

rahul
rahul

Reputation: 612

Installing boto3 using below shows boto3 in the list.

sudo python -m pip install boto3

Upvotes: 1

Jamie Cockburn
Jamie Cockburn

Reputation: 7555

You are not installing it as part of your python installation. You are installing the package to a specific directory using the --target option.

Without the --target option, your package would be installed to the site-packages directory of your python installation.

You find your site-packages directory(s) like this:

~$ python
>>> import site
>>> site.getsitepackages()
['<path>', ...]
>>>

pip list shows the pip installed packages in site-packages.

In other words, your package boto is not "installed" at all, and you won't be able to do the following without getting an error:

~$ python
>>> import boto
>>>

Unless you happen to be in the /Users/me/Projects/myproject directory at the time.

Upvotes: 0

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