Modern debian (ubuntu) and fedora block users installing using pip. > Even if you're telling it to install in ~/.local? I could see not allowing to run it as root.
I honestly haven't tried. Maybe I should... 🤔 I have an old laptop running XUbuntu 22.04 which I generally only use to compile the most recent branches on GitHub (main, 3.12, & 3.13 at the moment). Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list