older pypi packages

Robin Becker <[email protected]>
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I recently had to rebuild a server and find that pip 18.1 is apparently unable to install at least some older packages eg

> $ bin/pip install fcrypt
> Collecting fcrypt
>   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fcrypt (from versions: )
> No matching distribution found for fcrypt

the version I needed is in fact the last released 1.3.1  (in 2004) and it was installed by an earlier pip. I tried being more explicit

> $ bin/pip install fcrypt==1.3.1
> Collecting fcrypt==1.3.1
>   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fcrypt==1.3.1 (from versions: )
> No matching distribution found for fcrypt==1.3.1

I assume that latest pip needs information from the package / pypi data that is not available. Luckily installing from a pypi 
download works.

Is there any legacy mode in pip? It seems wrong to cause these older packages to become unusable.
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Robin Becker
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