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Adrian Baran
Adrian Baran

Reputation: 895

Python packages directories

Today I read this guide: https://docs.python.org/2.7/install/#inst-custom-install. Nowhere in this document did I found information about the directory dist-packages and in the same moment this document states that the default value of standard installation location is /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. This puzzles me, because what I found is that a path: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ is the default one for the pip install some_package.

On contrast everything works just as described in previously mentioned document when I'm using virtualenv.

My question is: where are all those differences comming from and what are the reasons behind them.

NOTE: I'm on Ubuntu 14.04

Upvotes: 1

Views: 52

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599590

You won't find anything about that in the Python docs, because it is a Debian-specific customization (which is inherited by Ubuntu since that is based on Debian). See their wiki for a bit of explanation.

Upvotes: 3

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