How to download pip packages for a different operating system?

Question

I want to download pip packages so that later I could install it on a different machine (with a different OS). However the --download option downloads wheel files specific for the current OS.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

You can run the following:

pip3 install --platform manylinux1_x86_64 --only-binary=:all:

The --only-binary=:all: is required when specifying --platform (if you omit it there is another parameter you can specify instead) and the platform itself can be found by looking at PyPi at the files for the package in question (https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/7.2.0/#files for example) - the platform is the last part of the filename e.g. win32, manylinux1_x86_64, manylinux1_i686 etc.

Answer 2

pip download --platform

is the answer. Google what platforms are available :)