dist-packages is a Debian-specific convention that is also present in its derivatives, like Ubuntu. Modules are installed to dist-packages when they come from the Debian package manager into this location: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Since easy_install and pip are installed from the package manager, they also use dist-packages, but they put packages here: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages From the Debian Python … Read more
pip is just a PyPI package like any other; you could use it to upgrade itself the same way you would upgrade any package: pip install –upgrade pip On Windows the recommended command is: python -m pip install –upgrade pip
Conda already does this. However, because it leverages hardlinks, it is easy to overestimate the space really being used, especially if one only looks at the size of a single env at a time. To illustrate the case, let’s use du to inspect the real disk usage. First, if I count each environment directory individually, … Read more
Note: The question is specifically asking how to upgrade npm, not Node.js. If you want to update Node.js over a CLI on windows, I recommend using chocolatey for that. What method should I choose to update NPM? Node.js v16 or higher? npm install -g npm Node.js v14 or below? Consider updating to latest LTS release … Read more
Quoting from the Conda blog: Having been involved in the python world for so long, we are all aware of pip, easy_install, and virtualenv, but these tools did not meet all of our specific requirements. The main problem is that they are focused around Python, neglecting non-Python library dependencies, such as HDF5, MKL, LLVM, etc., … Read more