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Asked By – balloneij
How do I install a .whl file?
I have the wheel library, but I don’t know how to use it to install those files. I have the .whl file, but I don’t know how to run it.
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Answer
You normally use a tool like pip to install wheels. Leave it to the tool to discover and download the file if this is for a project hosted on PyPI.
For this to work, you do need to install the wheel package:
pip install wheel
You can then tell pip to install the project (and it’ll download the wheel if available), or the wheel file directly:
pip install project_name # discover, download and install
pip install wheel_file.whl # directly install the wheel
The wheel module, once installed, also is runnable from the command line, you can use this to install already-downloaded wheels:
python -m wheel install wheel_file.whl
Also see the wheel project documentation.
This question is answered By – Martijn Pieters
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