Install Python Package from tar Archive (without pip)

Let’s take the installation of matplotlib as example.

Firstly, get the archive from the internet, you can find most of the archives from pypi.org.

$ wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/26/04/8b381d5b166508cc258632b225adbafec49bbe69aa9a4fa1f1b461428313/matplotlib-3.0.3.tar.gz

Then uncompress the tar.gz file

$ tar -xvzf file.tar.gz

Go to the uncompressed file and install it

$ cd matplotlib-3.0.3
$ python3 setup.py install

Now you have installed the package manually.

The process is equivalent to the following:

$ pip3 install matplotlib

But with this method, you will be able to install some of the packages that are not supported by pip installation.

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