如何摆脱在 pip 中使用 --user

Question

I use to own a laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 and installing packages through the pycharm terminal with pip was a simple pip install foobar_package . Recently I replaced my laptop with a desktop and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it as well. The problem I face is that when I run the default pip install command it tries to install the packages in the root python directory.

The internet gave a solution in which I should just add --user to the pip command. For example: pip install --user foobar_package . Although this works it is frustrating following a tutorial that require 5 pip packages to be installed and I have to insert the --user command manually whereas previously it was a simple copy and paste.

Can I setup pycharm terminal to always use the home user to install the packages in the venv?

Answer 1

I believe it has been solved in the pip version that (coincidentally) has been released earlier this week 20.0 (2020-01-21) (but this version has an issue so make sure to install 20.0.1 ).

See the release notes for pip 20.0 :

Default to doing a user install (as if --user was passed) when the main site-packages directory is not writeable and user site-packages are enabled. ( #1668 )