title: how can I install "pip wheel" on a machine without internet connection?
body: <p>We have a prod server machine without internet connection, and I would like to be able to execute "pip wheel". </p>
  
  <p>I've downloaded <code>virtualenv-1.9.tar.gz</code> copied to the prod server and extracted it. First, why isn't pip wheel available right away?</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ ./virtualenv-1.9/virtualenv.py venv/v1
  New python executable in venv/v1/bin/python
  Installing setuptools............done.
  Installing pip...............done.
  [ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ source venv/v1/bin/activate
  (v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ which pip
  ~/venv/v1/bin/pip
  (v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ pip wheel
  ERROR: unknown command "wheel" - maybe you meant "help"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've proceeded to download and copy <code>wheel-0.24.0.tar.gz</code>, but that only installed <code>wheel</code>, not <code>pip wheel</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ pip install wheel-0.24.0.tar.gz
  Unpacking ./wheel-0.24.0.tar.gz
    Running setup.py egg_info for package from file:///x/home/ihadanny/wheel-0.24.0.tar.gz
      no previously-included directories found matching 'wheel/test/*/dist'
      no previously-included directories found matching 'wheel/test/*/build'
  Installing collected packages: wheel
    Running setup.py install for wheel
      no previously-included directories found matching 'wheel/test/*/dist'
      no previously-included directories found matching 'wheel/test/*/build'
      Installing wheel script to /x/home/ihadanny/venv/v1/bin
  Successfully installed wheel
  Cleaning up...
  (v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ pip wheel
  ERROR: unknown command "wheel" - maybe you meant "help"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDIT: I also tried <code>pip install wheel</code> to no-avail</p>
  
  <pre><code>(v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ pip install wheel
  Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): wheel in ./venv/v1/lib/python2.6/site-packages
  Cleaning up...
  (v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ pip wheel
  ERROR: unknown command "wheel" - maybe you meant "help"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and of course <code>upgrade</code> can't work (no internet connection...)</p>
  
  <p>(v1)[ihadanny@lvshdc2en0012 ~]$ pip install --upgrade wheel
     Cannot fetch index base URL <a href="https://pypi.python.org/simple/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.python.org/simple/</a></p>
  
  <p>what am I missing? </p>