Am Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 01:53:32PM -0000 schrieb Jon Ribbens via Python-list:
> >> Are they not available in your system's package manager? > > > > ... this clearly often answers to "no" for applications of > > any complexity. > > > > Is there a suggested proper path to deal with that (Debian is > > of interest to me here) ? > > Yes, as previously mentioned, use virtual environments. > > These days they don't even need to be "activated". For package 'foo' > for example you could create /usr/local/lib/foo, under which you would > create a virtual environment and install the 'foo' package inside it, > and then you could do: > > ln -s /usr/local/lib/foo/env/bin/foo /usr/local/bin/foo > > and then you could just type 'foo' to run it. This all being nice and well, but: How does one "fill" that venv with packages from pip during apt-get install python3-app-of-interest ? Is the suggested way really to pip-install into this venv during apt-get install ? Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list