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* Display usage and help: <tt>avail_wheels --help</tt> | * Display usage and help: <tt>avail_wheels --help</tt> | ||
=== Pre-downloading packages === | === Pre-downloading packages === <!--T:61--> | ||
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You can make your own wheelhouse in your home. A wheelhouse is a folder containing downloaded Python packages (or "wheels"). Compute Canada maintains a wheelhouse that is available on all nodes; that is why you can install many packages without internet access. Here is how to create your own: | You can make your own wheelhouse in your home. A wheelhouse is a folder containing downloaded Python packages (or "wheels"). Compute Canada maintains a wheelhouse that is available on all nodes; that is why you can install many packages without internet access. Here is how to create your own: | ||
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# Create a folder in your home, e.g.: <tt>mkdir ~/wheelhouse</tt>. | # Create a folder in your home, e.g.: <tt>mkdir ~/wheelhouse</tt>. | ||
# Go inside this folder, and run <tt>pip download thepackageyouneed</tt>. This will download the package and its dependencies in the working directory. The syntax of <tt>pip download</tt> is the same as <tt>pip install</tt>. | # Go inside this folder, and run <tt>pip download thepackageyouneed</tt>. This will download the package and its dependencies in the working directory. The syntax of <tt>pip download</tt> is the same as <tt>pip install</tt>. |