["python","installation","python-wheel"]
Wheel file installation

How do I install a .whl file? I have the wheel library, but I don't know how to use it to install those files. I have the .whl file, but I don't know how to run it.
You normally use a tool like pip to install wheels. Leave it to the tool to discover and download the file if this is for a project hosted on PyPI. For this to work, you do need to install the wheel package: pip install wheel You can then tell pip to install the project (and it'll download the wheel if available), or the wheel file directly: pip install project_name # discover, download and install pip install wheel_file.whl # directly install the wheel Also see the wheel project documentation.