On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <roy-8299b9.17014115022...@news.panix.com>, > Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > >> > > $ pip install --no-index --quiet --find-links packages metar==1.4.0 >> > [snip] >> > > ValueError: unknown url type: packages >> > >> > The path to your cache directory is incorrect. I suggest using >> > absolute paths (eg. /home/user/packages) instead of relative paths, >> > which is likely what caused this issue. >> >> No, that's not it. It doesn't work with an absolute path either. > > OK, I figured this out. The on-line docs > (http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/reference/pip_wheel.html) say > you can give --find-links a path, but it looks like it insists on it > being a valid URL. If I prepend "file:" to the absolute path, it works. > > Maybe this is something which has changed in newer versions of pip? > I've got 1.1 (and python 2.7.3). I'm pretty sure both of these are what > came with Ubuntu Precise. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
It’s heavily outdated, and that IS the cause of your problem. pip 1.5 accepts such paths just fine. Please upgrade your pip. -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://kwpolska.tk> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
