title: Installing packages (pywin32) to Python embedded distribution
body: <p>The <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#embedded-distribution" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Python 3.5 "embedded distribution"</a> is a ZIP file containing</p>
  
  <pre><code>pyexpat.pyd
  python.exe
  python3.dll
  python35.dll
  python35.zip
  pythonw.exe
  pyvenv.cfg
  select.pyd
  sqlite3.dll
  unicodedata.pyd
  vcruntime140.dll
  winsound.pyd
  _bz2.pyd
  _ctypes.pyd
  _decimal.pyd
  _elementtree.pyd
  _hashlib.pyd
  _lzma.pyd
  _msi.pyd
  _multiprocessing.pyd
  _overlapped.pyd
  _socket.pyd
  _sqlite3.pyd
  _ssl.pyd
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to install pywin32</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywin32" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywin32</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/pywin32/PyWin32.HTML" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/pywin32/PyWin32.HTML</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The installer requires the specific python version to be installed on the system. Target paths cannot be provided manually.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DUOov.png" alt="Dialog"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/97EtM.png" alt="Selection"></p>
  
  <p>The installer can be unzipped but I am not familiar with the packaging system, so I cannot do a manual install.</p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py</a> which manages to get Scripts/pip.exe and creates Lib/site-packages.</p>
  
  <p>But:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tools\python
  &gt;pip install pywin32
    Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32 (from versions: )
  No matching distribution found for pywin32
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Solution moved to answer.</strong></p>
  
  <p>It would be interesting to know how manually install the package from the the current installer (or how to get the installer to use a specified path).</p>