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specify wheel cache when installing a package

With the introduction of Python's wheel, I now see that wheels built are cached in my home directory's cache:

~/myproject-0.1$ pip install .
Building wheels for collected packages: myproject  
Processing /home/oz123/pyproject-0.1 
Building wheels for collected packages: myproject 
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for myproject 
 Stored in directory: /home/oz123/.cache/pip/wheels/64/80/bf/d7899de05c2cf7f1ae18806b0c494b8c43721189bbfafce32
Successfully built myproject

I would like to know:

  1. Is there a way to install the project without building a wheel ? (I know I could simply remove wheel from my system)
  2. Is there a way to specify the location of this cache?
Solution

  • To disable the wheel cache you can simply do:

    sudo pip install . --no-cache-dir