How to install a custom python library for a app with a lot of dependencies?

[ConsoleBotTryPC]

Hi,

Hope you'll are having a great day!

Coming to the question: How can I install Python libraries for usage in scripts under an app?

Basically, I have created an external lookup script, and it requires the following modules:
msgraph-sdk, azure-identity

I easily installed them for testing on my local system by using pip. Now I want to make it work on Splunk.

I researched a bit, and pretty much all the solutions mainly say to create a lib folder under etc/apps/<appName>/lib
And then copy and paste the external library folder in there.

The thing is, these libraries have a lot of dependencies with them, which get auto-installed when we do it with pip install.

So my question is, does there exist a more sophisticated and straightforward way to install these large libraries without copy-pasting potentially 100s of libraries?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank youu,

Best,
Jay

[yuanliu]

This is about PIP install, not Splunk search. (And perhaps more suited for All Apps and Add-ons and Installation forums.)  A little googling shows https://stackoverflow.com/a/2916320/17164801 by Ian Bicking.

Use:

pip install --install-option="--prefix=$PREFIX_PATH" package_name

You might also want to use --ignore-installed to force all dependencies to be reinstalled using this new prefix. You can use --install-option to multiple times to add any of the options you can use with python setup.py install (--prefix is probably what you want, but there are a bunch more options you could use).

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Hope this helps.

[ConsoleBotTryPC]

Alright, thanks a lot for the help.

Appreciate the help and advice for the right forum. 

Have a nice day.