I am having trouble configuring my pip.conf file to stipulate that PIP should look for downloads from
https://pypi.python.org/simple/ rather than http://pypi.python.org/simple/
I have a related question posted PIP Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement SQLAlchemy where a couple of people diagnosed what was going wrong. However I am having trouble putting in place the solution.
I opend my pip.conf file located at /home/user/.pip/pip.conf using the pip config file documentation I added the below. There is nothing else in the file.
[global]
timeout = 60
find-links = https://pypi.python.org/simple/
[install]
find-links = https://pypi.python.org/simple/
After saving an exiting there is no change. I still cannot run commands such as pip install
$ sudo pip install SQLAlchemy
Downloading/unpacking SQLAlchemy
Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement SQLAlchemy
No distributions at all found for SQLAlchemy
Storing complete log in /home/user/.pip/pip.log
My setup
You should use index-url = https://pypi.python.org/simple/ rather than find-links in your config. This will replace the default rather than just adding another option (which is what find-links does).
From latest guide: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#config-file
The new default configuration file is: $HOME/.config/pip/pip.conf
Legacy per-user configuration file which is also respected:
On Unix and macOS the configuration file is: $HOME/.pip/pip.conf
Update from 2011-04-04 version to latest one
pip version 1.0 is fairly old, pypi shows date 2011-04-04. Consider installing latest version.
Since 2011 there were some significant changes (security fixes, support for wheel format...)
I would first remove completely the pip installed by apt-get, incl. cleaning whatever is in directories around. And then install using get-pip.py as described on pypa.
I know, that it is often recommended following Linux distribution packages, but with pip it is simply not practical.
I think your changes are not being used.
pip install --find-links=https://pypi.python.org/simple/ SQLAlchemy works on my system.
. The log says it is checking https://pypi.python.org/simple.
