pip 删除cache_删除〜/ .cache / pip目录是否安全？

I have limited space on my server, and I am thinking to delete the cache of the PIP. I am not sure if its safe to delete or not.

ls ~/.cache/pip/

Contains following dir/files.

http selfcheck.json wheels

Version

$ pip -V

pip 7.1.2 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

Please advise.

解决方案

According to pip's caching documentation from version 6 you can use the --no-cache-dir option.

But that didn't help me as I was using a wrapper (pinax starter projects) that runs pip in the background to install several packages. Since I kept getting an pip.exceptions.HashErrors ('hashes don't match the requirement file) and I didn't want to temper with its code I renamed the pip cache folder and tried running my wrapper again. Once I noticed there weren't issues I proceeded to delete the entire cache pip folder. I haven't had any problem after that. So I can assume it is entirely a safe operation to delete pip's cache folder.

These are the locations where you can find your pip cache:

Unix

~/.cache/pip and it respects the XDG_CACHE_HOME directory.

OS X

~/Library/Caches/pip.

Windows

\pip\Cache