Installing pip for an offline machine on Python 2.7, CentOS 6.3

Question

I'm trying to install lxml for Centos6.3, due to this issue . It looks like I've got a conflicting version of pip. The standing solution seems to re-install pip for the correct version of python.

My main issue is that all the methods I've found for installing pip require an internet connection. Is it possible to download pip install files, and then run pip install -U pip and point it at the right files?

The PyPI page for pip only has pip6.11 as a .whl . I've tried running pip install -U pip-6.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl and it's not worked.

I'm stumped. How do I install it?

Answer 1

You could try to download pip and setuptools manually from: https://pypi.org/project/pip/#files and https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/#files

get the python pip script from: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

after that unzip/untar packages and run: python get-pip.py --no-index --find-links=/path/to/pip-and-setuptools

or alternatively trying: python setup.py install when running in unpacked folders

More here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2351