I installed spacy locally like this:
pip3.7 install --install-option="--prefix=/proj/aa/myusername/lib/python" -U spacy
Local installation completed successfully. Now when I tried to download English package
python3.7 -m spacy download en
It gave me an error like this:
No module named spacy
So I did:
setenv PYTHONPATH /proj/aa/myusername/lib/python/lib/python3.7/site-packages
python3.7 -m spacy download en
It seems to download everything correctly but last step failed when it tried to write to an area which needs admin privileges:
creating /admin_access_path/.package/python-3.7.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm
error: could not create '/admin_access_path/.package/python-3.7.2/lib/python3.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm': Read-only file system
How do I prevent this and do the download locally?
I was able to get past the issue by adding --install-option
python3.7 -m spacy download en --install-option="--prefix=/proj/aa/myusername/lib/python"