How do I install a .whl file in a PyCharm virtualenv?

Question

The package manager in Project Interpreter doesn't appear to have any way for me to run a pure pip command so I'm unable to install the wheel as I normally would through command line.

Running through command line installs the wheel on my base python install and not the virtualenv. Help?

Answer 1

You can install it from PyCharm's Python console with the pip module :

import pip  def install_whl(path):     pip.main(['install', path])  install_whl("path/to/file.whl") 

Answer 2

To install via your command line, and avoid installing on your base Python, you'll have to first activate the virtualenv.

You can do this on POSIX using:

$ source path_to_your_venv/bin/activate 

And then for Windows systems:

> path_to_venv\Scripts\activate 

You can then install the .whl file with pip install filename.whl while the virtual env has been activated.