Installing pygame or other python packages on school computers behind firewall

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i'm a teacher in a high school and we're using python to code. I'm trying to install packages like pygame and mysql.connector but the firewall is blocking me from using pip...

I get the following error messages:

Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/pip/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/pip/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1123)'))) - skipping

Any chance there is a way to do this around the firewall? I've already tried contacting our IT tech but they can't or won't help. We need this for our senior pupils and their computing projects.

Thanks!!

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You're going to have a bad time if you can't even install pip packages on those PCs. My recommendation instead would be to create VM images with all the dependencies installed at home and just bring them to the school PCs.

This was the standard at my university's CS degree at least. We were provided with pre-configured environment for pretty much every lecture (operating systems, programming, computer networks etc.) - as a plus, that way the professors didn't have to waste time "troubleshooting" unique issues with environment.

Link for Oracle's Open-source VM

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