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Kong
Asked: 2018-08-21 21:05:45 +0800 CST

What does pip install <dot> mean?

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I am installing this https://github.com/wkentaro/pytorch-fcn. It tells me to do this instruction.

git clone https://github.com/wkentaro/pytorch-fcn.git
cd pytorch-fcn
pip install .

What does pip install . mean ? Which folder or file am i running by just typing dot ? setup.py ?

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  1. Best Answer

    Basically you are specifying the location from which the pip package manager to extract the package information from.
    E.g.:

    # Get the Source code
git clone https://github.com/wkentaro/pytorch-fcn.git

# Change into the cloned git repository:pytorch-fcn
cd pytorch-fcn

# Install the package definitions from current location i.e. pytorch-fcn.
pip install .

    Here is a brief description: pip executes the setup.py which loads the requirements.txt which has textual representation of the dependency packages.

    References:

    1. Available here is the official documentation of pip.
    2. For better python development workflow refer here for why you should use pip and virtualenv.
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