python pip migrating libraries from ~/.local to /usr/local/lib

Question

I'm looking for a way on Ubuntu to quickly move all libraries installed to ~./local by pip install xxx --user, to /usr/local which is my global python library location.

Answer 1

What you can do is create and use a virtualenv. It is recommended to manage python packages and versions.

If you want to move / reinstall all your packages, pip can generate a list of installed packages with pip freeze, in a requirement.txt format. So you can reinstall everything anywhere you want using.

pip install -r requirements.txt --target=/path/

You could also directly copy site-packages folders, but I would not recommend it.