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Tes3awy
Tes3awy

Reputation: 2266

Default pip install to --user on Windows

I am using pip as my package manager for Python on my Windows 11 machine. I always install all my packages to --user. So, having to add --user argument every time I install a package is kind of annoying since it's my desired default installation path already!

> pip install package1 package2 package3 --user

On Ubuntu, if sudo pip is not used (which is recommended not to use it), pip install defaults to user

$ pip install package1 package2 package3
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
...

Is there any way to force pip to install packages to user by default as if --user argument is added without explicitly appending it at the end?

I always add --user --upgrade --verbose to any pip install command

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9218

Answers (1)

JoraSN
JoraSN

Reputation: 347

You can look at the pip documentation here.

For the following to work you might have to go to File Explorer and at the top go to View and make sure you have selected hidden items from the options.

You will need to specify the default install location within a pip.ini file. Which, is usually located at %APPDATA%\local\pip\pip.ini(on Windows).

The %APPDATA% is located in C:\Users\username then go to AppData on Windows.

You may have to create the pip.ini file when you find your pip directory. Within your pip.ini you will then need to put something like:

[global]
target=C:\Users\user

user being your username for your Windows machine.

Upvotes: 4

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