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How to Install Python Packages into CoCalc
You may need to install a Python package in a CoCalc project.
CoCalc already includes hundreds of packages for several Python development environments. For detailed package listings, see the section "Software and Programming Libraries Details" by visiting https://cocalc.com/help or clicking the ? About tab.
If a package may have general use but is not already installed in CoCalc, you can open a support request to install it. Uncomplicated install requests are typically handled within 1 business day. Install will happen faster if you include as much as possible of the following information:
- python 2 or python 3 language version
- link to package website
- special requirements and dependencies to build & install
You can install additional packages, but only at user permission level. CoCalc accounts do not have superuser privileges. Software must be installed into user-writeable parts of the filesystem.
Note: use pip3, or python3 below for installing into Python 3 environments.
If your package can be installed with pip, then use pip install --user ....
If your package is in a folder with a setup.py folder, you can do either python setup.py install --user or pip install --user --upgrade ./
You can avoid the need for --user flags if you work inside a Python virtual environment. See Virtualenv for more information.
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A more structured documentation is the CoCalc User Manual.
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