How do I install a Python package with a .whl file?
I'm having trouble installing a Python package (specifically, JPype1 0.5.7) on my Windows machine, and would like to install it with Christoph Gohlke's Window binaries. (Which, to my experience, alleviated much of the fuss for many other package installations.)
However, while Christoph used to provide .exe files in the past, recently it seems he's uploading .whl files instead.
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#jpype
But how do I install .whl files?
Notes:
I just used the following which was quite simple. First open a console then cd to where you've downloaded your file like some-package.whl and use
pip install some-package.whl
Note: if pip.exe is not recognized, you may find it in the "Scripts" directory from where python has been installed. If pip is not installed, this page can help: How do I install pip on Windows?
Note: for clarification
If you copy the *.whl file to your local drive (ex. C:some-dirsome-file.whl ) use the following command line parameters --
pip install C:/some-dir/some-file.whl
To install from wheel, give it the directory where the wheel is downloaded. For example, to install package_name.whl :
pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=/where/its/downloaded package_name
Make sure you have updated pip first to enable wheel support:
pip install --upgrade pip
I am in the same boat as the OP.
Using a Windows command prompt, from directory:
C:Python34Scripts>
pip install wheel
seemed to work.
Changing directory to where the whl was located, it just tells me 'pip is not recognized'. Going back to C:Python34Scripts> , then using the full command above to provide the 'where/its/downloaded' location, it says Requirement 'scikit_image-...-win32.whl' looks like a filename, but the filename does not exist .
So I dropped a copy of the .whl in Python34/Scripts, ran the exact same command over again (with the --find-links= still going to the other folder), and this time it worked.