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--no-cache-dir error when downloading model

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gulshan@gulshan-Inspiron-3543:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages$  python -m spacy download en

    Downloading en_core_web_sm-1.2.0/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0.tar.gz


Usage:   
  /usr/bin/python -m pip install [options] <requirement specifier> ...
  /usr/bin/python -m pip install [options] -r <requirements file> ...
  /usr/bin/python -m pip install [options] [-e] <vcs project url> ...
  /usr/bin/python -m pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
  /usr/bin/python -m pip install [options] <archive url/path> ...

no such option: --no-cache-dir
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spacy/__main__.py", line 109, in <module>
    plac.Interpreter.call(CLI)
  File "plac_ext.py", line 1142, in call
    print(out)
  File "plac_ext.py", line 914, in __exit__
    self.close(exctype, exc, tb)
  File "plac_ext.py", line 952, in close
    self._interpreter.throw(exctype, exc, tb)
  File "plac_ext.py", line 964, in _make_interpreter
    arglist = yield task
  File "plac_ext.py", line 1139, in call
    raise_(task.etype, task.exc, task.tb)
  File "plac_ext.py", line 380, in _wrap
    for value in genobj:
  File "plac_ext.py", line 95, in gen_exc
    raise_(etype, exc, tb)
  File "plac_ext.py", line 966, in _make_interpreter
    cmd, result = self.parser.consume(arglist)
  File "plac_core.py", line 207, in consume
    return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spacy/__main__.py", line 31, in download
    cli_download(model, direct)
  File "spacy/cli/download.py", line 25, in download
    link_package(model_name, model, force=True)
  File "spacy/cli/link.py", line 21, in link_package
    pkg = importlib.import_module(package_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
ImportError: No module named en_core_web_sm
gulshan@gulshan-Inspiron-3543:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages$

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Created 6 years ago
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inescommented, Apr 6, 2017

Which version of pip are you running?

The download command uses pip to install the models, and sets the --no-cache-dir flag to avoid pip requiring too much memory. This setting seems to not be available in your version, so could you try updating pip to the latest version and re-run the download?

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