Using an extra python package index url with setup.py

If you’re the package maintainer, and you want to host one or more dependencies for your package somewhere other than PyPi, you can use the dependency_links option of setuptools in your distribution’s setup.py file. This allows you to provide an explicit location where your package can be located.

For example:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name="somepackage",
    install_requires=[
        'somedep'
    ],
    dependency_links=[
        'https://pypi.example.org/pypi/somedep/'
    ]
    # ...
)

If you host your own index server, you’ll need to provide links to the pages containing the actual download links for each egg, not the page listing all of the packages (e.g. https://pypi.example.org/pypi/somedep/, not https://pypi.example.org/)