pip3 always installs in global install location

[Nitinsiwach]

• Pip version:10.0.0
• Python version:3.6.5
• Operating system: windows 10

Description:

I was installing pytorch in an environment 'ptrch' i had created using conda. For my combination of requirements (windows, python 3.6, no cuda, conda) The official site asks for torchvision to be installed as well. it asked me to do pip3 install torchvision --no-deps. I did it from inside ptrch but torchvision got installed to global install location (Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages) instead of inside ptrch.

my understanding has been that pip installs to the env it itself is installed into

1. I uninstalled torchvision and removed pip3 from Anaconda3/Scripts, deactivated ptrch, activated ptrch again, thinking some caching maybe is causing the global pip3 getting used instead of the ptrch one and then installed it again from inside ptrch. To my surprise it again got installed to the global location (Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages)

2. There was another pip3 in another environment 'tensorflow' and this was added to PATH. Though my understanding is that that pip3, if had interfered, would have installed torchvision in the tensorflow env, i still removed that pip3 as well

3. now i have just one pip3 and that is in ptrch env. Now i again uninstalled torchvision and reinstalled it from inside ptrch. And again it is getting installed to Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages

Is this supposed to work like this? Is my only option to use -t switch?

All the envs are created using conda.

[chrahunt]

Is this still affecting you? If so, can you please try re-running the installation with --verbose and provide the output?

[chrahunt]

It's been some time, so I'll close this issue, but please reach out if you are still having any problems.