Easy_install cache downloaded files

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Is there a way to configure easy_install to avoid having to download the files again when an installation fails?

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Update 13 years later: `easy_install` was removed from Python in January 2021. The python package manager is `pip`, it caches downloaded packages.

pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/) is a drop-in replacement for the easy_install tool and can do that.

Just run `easy_install pip` and set an environment variable `PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE` to the path you want pip to store the files. Note that the cache won't work with dependencies that checkout from a source code repository (like svn/git/hg/bzr).

Then use `pip install` instead of `easy_install`

Easy_install cache downloaded files

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