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Installing all the wheel packages in a directory is not working in Windows OS

I'm trying to clone all the packages of a venv from one PC to another(both having Windows OS). When I'm installing all the wheel packages on the second PC with this command

pip install *.whl

as suggested by AKX in his answer to my question, it's giving me the error as.

*.whl looks like a file but not found in the current directory.

When I installed a package that have no dependencies, it's installed successfully. There is a long list of packages, so I can't install each package by typing the name of whole .whl file.

Solution

  • If you have access to a bash shell (Git Bash, Cygwin, WSL, or whatever), the following script works great:

    for wheel in *.whl do
    pip install $wheel
done

    I'm sure similar syntax could be used for Powershell.