How to install a package with Poetry that requires CLI args?

Question

Here's an example that requires it:

poetry add pycurl

... gives: ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from compile-time ssl backend (none/other)

The fix is given in that post:

pip install --compile --install-option="--with-openssl" pycurl

How to package-manage my project now?

Must I use poetry for everything else, and manually pip install pycurl?

Or can I somehow fold it into my pyproject.toml?

Answer 1

Although this is old, I would like to share an alternative to re-install the package with the CLI options.

I do not know if running this with Poetry could cause any damage, but I would believe not.

First you'd have to activate your poetry environment with poetry shell. After that, get the current version of pycurl that is installed using pip list, and copy that value.

Now, you can run pip install --compile --install-option="--with-openssl" --upgrade --force-reinstall pycurl==<version> to install it with the correct options.