(ipy3) [sajid@xrmlite ~]$ which vips
~/packages/spack/opt/spack/linux-centos7-x86_64/gcc-8.3.0/libvips-8.7.4-rilxe37cjuisabs3kzapoljmdcr7jivc/bin/vips
(ipy3) [sajid@xrmlite ~]$ pip install --user pyvips
Collecting pyvips
Requirement already satisfied: cffi>=1.0.0 in ./miniconda3/envs/ipy3/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pyvips)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in ./miniconda3/envs/ipy3/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cffi>=1.0.0->pyvips)
Installing collected packages: pyvips
Successfully installed pyvips-2.1.5
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 19.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
(ipy3) [sajid@xrmlite ~]$ pip show pyvips
Name: pyvips
Version: 2.1.5
Summary: binding for the libvips image processing library, ABI mode
Home-page: https://github.com/libvips/pyvips
Author: John Cupitt
Author-email: jcupitt@gmail.com
License: MIT
Location: /home/sajid/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requires: cffi
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 19.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
(ipy3) [sajid@xrmlite ~]$