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Austin
Austin

Reputation: 7359

pip install without upgrading a specific dependency

I'm trying to pip install a library that has a lot of dependencies. I have a patched version of one dependency that I would like not updated when I install the library. How can I prevent this patched dependency from being updated?

(Specifically, I want to pip install fastai without upgrading my version of torch, but do install other dependencies required)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1673

Answers (2)

Fizz Areh
Fizz Areh

Reputation: 97

As of 2024 (CPython 3.12.2, pip 24.3.1), the Natim's answer does not seem to work. I ran

pip install torch==2.5.0
pip install torchvision

and this automatically upgraded torch to 2.5.1. What worked for me is to pass the --no-deps argument to pip:

pip install torch==2.5.0
pip install torchvision --no-deps

But the problem of this solution is that I may accidently update torch with some other package that uses it as a dependency, in the future...

Upvotes: 0

Natim
Natim

Reputation: 18132

If you install this dependency before running pip install it won't install it again.

This means to you can install your patched version and then your package:

For instance:

From pypi with another version

pip install requests==2.17.0
pip install kinto

From a Git branch

git clone [email protected]:kennethreitz/requests.git
pip install -e requests
pip install kinto

From a egg or a wheel

wget https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/archive/v2.21.0.tar.gz
pip install v2.21.0.tar.gz
pip install kinto

Upvotes: 1

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