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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 349

PIP Install: Cannot combine --user and --target

My goal is to install a package to a specific directory on my machine so I can package it up to be used with AWS Lambda.

Here is what I have tried:
pip install snowflake-connector-python -t .

pip install --system --target=C:\Users\path2folder --install-option=--install-scripts=C:\Users\path2folder --upgrade snowflake-connector-python

Both of these options have returned the following error message:
ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--target'

In order for the AWS Lambda function to work, I need to have my dependencies installed in a specific directory to create a .zip file for deployment. I have searched through Google and StackOverflow, but have not seen a thread that has answered this issue.

Update: This does not seem to be a problem on Mac. The issue described is on Windows 10.

Upvotes: 22

Views: 32141

Answers (6)

Zhiwei
Zhiwei

Reputation: 546

We encountered the same issue when running pip install --target ./py_pkg -r requirements.txt --upgrade with Microsoft store version of Python 3.9.

Adding --no-user to the end of it seems to be solving the issue. Maybe you can try that in your command and let us know if this solution works?

pip install --target ./py_pkg -r requirements.txt --upgrade --no-user

Upvotes: 45

barakbd
barakbd

Reputation: 1102

I ran into this with:

az extension add --name storage-preview

Fixed with:

$ cat $HOME/.config/pip/pip.conf
[install]
user = false

Related to this answer: Configure pip to install everything as with --user

Upvotes: 0

Irfan
Irfan

Reputation: 47

similar issue resolved it by adding --no-user

AzureAD+Irfan@irfan MINGW64 ~/Documents/aws deployment package (main)
$ pip3 install fastapi -t .
ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--target'

AzureAD+Irfan@irfan MINGW64 ~/Documents/aws deployment package (main)
$ ^C

AzureAD+Irfan@irfan MINGW64 ~/Documents/aws deployment package (main)
$ pip3 install fastapi -t . --no-user
Collecting fastapi
  Using cached fastapi-0.92.0-py3-none-any.whl (56 kB)
Collecting starlette<0.26.0,>=0.25.0
  Using cached starlette-0.25.0-py3-none-any.whl (66 kB)
Collecting pydantic!=1.7,!=1.7.1,!=1.7.2,!=1.7.3,!=1.8,!=1.8.1,<2.0.0,>=1.6.2
  Using cached pydantic-1.10.5-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl (2.2 MB)
Collecting typing-extensions>=4.2.0
  Using cached typing_extensions-4.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (27 kB)
Collecting anyio<5,>=3.4.0
  Using cached anyio-3.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (80 kB)
Collecting idna>=2.8
  Using cached idna-3.4-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
Collecting sniffio>=1.1
  Using cached sniffio-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (10 kB)
Installing collected packages: typing-extensions, sniffio, idna, pydantic, anyio, starlette, fastapi
Successfully installed anyio-3.6.2 fastapi-0.92.0 idna-3.4 pydantic-1.10.5 sniffio-1.3.0 starlette-0.25.0 typing-extensions-4.5.0

Upvotes: 0

Dalveer Singh
Dalveer Singh

Reputation: 75

Adding --no-user at the end does work, and by far the easiest solution.

Upvotes: 5

Renju Jose
Renju Jose

Reputation: 379

I got a similar error recently. Adding my solution so that it might help someone facing the error due to the same reason.

I was facing an issue where all my pip installed packages were going to an older python brew installation folder.

As part of debugging, I was trying to install awscli-local package to user site-package using:

pip install --user awscli-local

Then I got: ERROR: cannot combine --user and --target

In my case, it was due to the changes in pip config I had set some time back for some other reason. I had set the 'target' config globally - removing which removed this error and my actual issue I was debugging for.

Check the following if solutions given above doesn't resolve your issue:

try the command: pip config edit --editor <your_text_editor>

For me: pip config edit --editor sublime

This will open the current config file where you can check if there's any conflicting configuration like the 'target' set in my case.

Upvotes: 1

Hans-Georg Fill
Hans-Georg Fill

Reputation: 99

We had the same issue just in a Python course: The error comes up if Python is installed as an app from the Microsoft app store. In our case it was resolved after re-installing Python by downloading and using the installation package directly from the Python website.

Upvotes: 9

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