no such option: --no-install

Question

I am trying to setup cartodb in ubuntu 12.04 by following https://github.com/danseely/cartodb-install/blob/master/DEV-INSTALLATION.md and as a part of the installation, there are some python dependencies to be installed.Below is a part which i tried

export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal
sudo pip install --no-install GDAL

While giving sudo pip install --no-install GDAL it is giving an error

no such option --no-install.

FYI i have python 2.7 dev version installed.I don't know whats wrong. Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The --no-install option has been removed in pip version 7.

The new option appears to be called --download, which takes a directory as argument:

sudo pip install --download /tmp/GDAL GDAL

For the --no-download option given a few lines later in the installation guide linked in your question, you'll have to try and do the following as alternative, since that is also deprecated:

pip install /tmp/GDAL

or similar, according to this pip issue.

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As of pip 8.0.0, --download has been deprecated. Instead, use

sudo pip download GDAL

(see the release notes).

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Since this seems to be an issue about grabbing the include dirs, have you tried using setting CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS instead? E.g.

export CFLAGS=/usr/include/gdal 
export CXXFLAGS=/usr/include/gdal 
sudo pip install GDAL

Not sure why the linked installation guide uses C_INCLUDE_PATH instead.

Also, this seems to be the usual kludginess you can run into, which is either because the OS decides to places package header files into a separate subdirectory, or because GDAL source code is not properly written to #include <gdal/gdal.h> etc. You may run into that more often, if you install more software.