How to check the location of a Python package installed using pip on Ubuntu?

Question

I installed some python packages using the pip command on my Ubuntu machine. How to find the folder of those packages?

Answer 1

You can find the location of a package using the command:  pip show <package name>

The following example shows the location of "xgboost" on my Ubuntu machine.

pip show xgboost

Name: xgboost

Version: 1.7.1

Summary: XGBoost Python Package

Home-page: https ://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

Author: 

Author-email: 

License: Apache-2.0

Location: /home/****/envpycoding/lib/python3.10/site-packages

Requires: numpy, scipy

Required-by: