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Asked: 2026-05-12T16:32:54+00:00

Say you’re on a team that’s maintaining a lot of internal python libraries(eggs), and

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Say you’re on a team that’s maintaining a lot of internal python libraries(eggs), and for whatever reason uploading them to pypi is not an option. How could you host the libraries(eggs) so that easy_install can still work for the members of your team?

Basically it would be cool if this worked….

(someproj)uberdev@hackmo:~$ easy_install myproprietary.lib-dev
user: uberdev 
password:...
fetching......
Searching for myproprietary.lib-dev
Reading http://dev.mycompany.corp/myproprietary.lib-dev
Reading http://dev.mycompany.corp
Reading http://dev.mycompany.corp/dist
Best match: myproprietary.lib-dev
Downloading http://dev.mycompany.corp/dist/myproprietary.lib-dev

I suppose there’s some sort of servers out there that can be installed but I’d appreciate some guidance from the experts on this matter.

Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    Deploy all your eggs to a directory all devs. can reach (for instance on a webserver).

    To install eggs from that directory, type:

    $ easy_install -H None -f http://server/vdir TheEggToInstall

    or.

    $ easy_install -H None -f /path/to/directory TheEggToInstall

    -H None means do not allow egg download from any host (except the one named in -f).

    The directory can be reachable over http or can be a directory you mount (NFS, Windows shares etc.). Perhaps even FTP works?

    The easy_install documentation has information on this.

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