I'm attempting to install ExifRead into QGIS. Assuming zero knowledge of python coding. Is there a command code I can send which will install the .whl? I'm having zero luck following python's own guide.
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A less technical approach to install ExifRead (also works for standalone QGIS) is as follows:
Download the python library from https://github.com/ianare/exif-py/releases. Select the Zip file format.
Extract the folder
"ExifRead-2.1.2"(the version number may vary) to any location on your hard drive. Although"C:\Program Files\QGIS Wien\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages"should be preferred.In the folder
"C:\Program Files\QGIS Wien\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages"(or any other folder that is configured within the QGIS python-path environement) add a new file"exiftools.pth"with just one line of text containing the path to the folder where you extracted the files at step 1 into. In my case that file would contain the following line:C:\Program Files\QGIS Wien\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages\ExifRead-2.1.2Restart QGIS for an update of the pythonpath environment.
I just went through this again after updating QGIS to 2.14.2 on my windows 7 machine which stopped PhototoShape working.
Install PIP to extract the .whl
I installed PIP from the OSGEO4W command prompt for instructions see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/ExternalPythonPackages
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
Then download the Exifread whl and paste it into Program Files\QGIS Essen\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages
change the command prompt to the site packages directory and then type pip install ExifRead-2.1.2-py2-none-any.whl (or whatever version you have).
And hopefully your sorted, this is my limit of knowledge on this so maybe somebody can explain it better...
I just opened, OSGEO4W as administrator and filed in:python –m pip install exifread. That's it!
I was able to install the Exifread library using Osgeo4W 
