Where does pip install its packages?
pip show <package name>
will provide the location for Windows and macOS, and I'm guessing any system. :)
For example:
> pip show cvxopt
Name: cvxopt
Version: 1.2.0
...
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
pip when used with virtualenv will generally install packages in the path <virtualenv_name>/lib/<python_ver>/site-packages
.
For example, I created a test virtualenv named venv_test with Python 2.7, and the django
folder is in venv_test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django
.
pip list -v
can be used to list packages' install locations, introduced in https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#b1-2018-03-31
Show install locations when list command ran with “-v” option. (#979)
>pip list -v
Package Version Location Installer
------------------------ --------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------
alabaster 0.7.12 c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
apipkg 1.5 c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
argcomplete 1.10.3 c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
astroid 2.3.3 c:\users\me\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages pip
...
This feature is introduced in pip
10.0.0b1. On Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), pip
or pip3
installed with sudo apt install python-pip
or sudo apt install python3-pip
is 9.0.1 which doesn't have this feature.
Check https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for suitable ways of upgrading pip
or pip3
.
Easiest way is probably
pip3 -V
This will show you where your pip is installed and therefore where your packages are located.