clipinstall

Install packages on an offline machine through clipboard.

Installation

$ pip install clipinstall

Requirements

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Usage

# 1) Download the package and copy it to clipboard on an online machine
clipin download requests==2.32.3

# Optional: download with dependencies
clipin download requests==2.32.3 --deps

# Local build mode: if PACKAGE_SPEC is a folder, run install.py in it and copy
# the newest wheel under dist/
clipin download /path/to/your/project

# Direct wheel mode: copy an existing .whl file
clipin download /path/to/dist/your_pkg-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl

# 2) (New) Copy a normal file/folder without package installation
clipin copy /path/to/file_or_folder

# Restore copied files/folders from clipboard on an offline machine
clipin paste --dir temp

# 3) Restore wheels from clipboard and install them on the target machine
clipin install

# Optional: specify the temp dir to store .whl files, the temp dir will be removed after 
# successful installation
clipin install --dir temp

# Optional: don't remove the temp files after installation
clipin install --no-clean

# Optional: extract module .py files from the installed package wheel into --dir
# (these files are kept and not removed)
clipin install --extract

# 4) Restore wheels from clipboard only (without installation)
clipin paste

# Optional: specify the dir to store .whl files
clipin paste --dir temp

See Also

Github repository

• https://github.com/Chitaoji/clipinstall/

PyPI project

• https://pypi.org/project/clipinstall/

License

This project falls under the BSD 3-Clause License.

History

v0.0.6

• Renamed package-fetch command to clipin download PACKAGE_SPEC.
• clipin download:
  • Supports direct wheel input from local .whl paths.
• New command clipin copy PATH to copy a normal local file/folder through clipboard.
• clipin paste now supports both package wheel payloads and generic file/folder payloads.
• clipin install rejects generic file/folder payloads and asks to use clipin paste.

v0.0.5

• clipin install:
  • New option --extract/--no-extract to extract package module .py files into --dir and keep them.

v0.0.4

• Bugfix for v0.0.3.

v0.0.3

• Removed __version__, use importlib.metadata.version(__name__) instead.

v0.0.2

• Local build mode: can download from local folder now.
• clipin install:
  • New option --force/--no-force to reinstall the package if exists.

v0.0.1

• New subcommand clipin paste to restore wheels from clipboard only (without installation).
• clipin install:
  • renamed option --temp-dir to --dir for convenience.
  • new option --clean/--no-clean to determine whether temp files should be removed after installation.

v0.0.0

• Initial release.