Installing Pip For Mac

Pip broken under Mac OS X Catalina? TLDR;

Install Pip For Mac Os X
Install Pip For Python 3 Mac
Installing Pip For Python3 Mac

pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option='-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/' --global-option='-L/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib/' --prefer-binary -r requirements.txt

Pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages. As well as Python, pip can be install on various operation systems: Linux, Mac, Windows, etc. In this post i am showing how to install pip on MacOS and how to install pip on Linux (Ubuntu and CentOS). Cool Tip: How to install specific version of a package using pip!Read More → Python: Install Pip.

As Apple has announced, Mac OS Catalina now runs under its own read only file system:

macOS Catalina runs on a dedicated, read-only system volume called Macintosh HD. This volume is completely separate from all other data to help prevent the accidental overwriting of critical operating system files. [1]

This one line fixed pip on my Mac when all I got before was some kind of DistributionNotFound exception trying to install something via pip. (Mac OS X 10.10.4, Python 2.7) – Oliver Schafeld Jul 3 '15 at 20:59. I had to also then run pip install -upgrade pip – thorr18 Jan 20 '16 at 4:48.
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Sounds great. But if you need to change that volume, or if you use software that expects to be able to find files on that read only volume that aren't there and can't be added, you're kind of stuck.

Install Pip For Mac Os X

One example is Python's pip which, for some packages, will expect to find header files located in /usr/include. Apple gave developers a get-out-of-jail-free card in Mojave:

As a workaround, an extra package is provided which will install the headers to the base system. In a future release, this package will no longer be provided. [2]

and in true Apple fashion, the package was taken away. This creates problems if you want to install commonly used, but maybe not so commonly maintained, libraries. One example is Pillow, an image processing library. This will well and truly fail to compile if you just try pip install Pillow. It looks for the headers and libraries, and doesn't find them.

What can we do? Well, for pip there's a few options. The first is simply not to compile at all, but to prefer a binary. This is as simple in some cases as the --prefer-binary option. But what if, like Pillow, there is no precompiled binary for your platform? Or for reasons of information security, you have to compile it yourself?

Install Pip For Python 3 Mac

Fortunately, pip can be directed to look in different places using the 'global-options' flag. To get Pillow to build, use the command at the top of this article, reproduced below:

Installing Pip For Python3 Mac

To understand this more fully, take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18783390/python-pip-specify-a-library-directory-and-an-include-directory.

If you need to do a similar function as part of other install tools, common environment variables are LD_LIBRARY_PATH (deprecated[3], but still commonly used), LIBRARY_PATH and INCLUDE_PATH. Setting these to the library paths (/Library ... /usr/lib) and include paths (/Library ... /usr/include) respectively may help.

[1]https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210650
[2]https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_10_release_notes#3035624
[3]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18241517/c-include-path-vs-ld-library-path