You can't use `pip` on Ubuntu 23.04 anymore

Shivani82

5/6/24, 8:12 AM

To cut a long tale short, you will no longer be able to do pip install x. The command does not work with Ubuntu 23.04 due to a deliberate policy change to avoid conflicts between the Python package manager (pip) and Ubuntu's underlying APT. pip can now only be used in a virtual environment created with venv.

My question is if this is a good or negative thing. Is this a good move by the Ubuntu team? Only being able to utilize pip in a virtual environment. What are your thoughts on the situation?

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guiverc

5/6/24, 8:14 AM

This change wasn't actually done by the Ubuntu team, it exists in upstream Debian too if you look, either way I see your question as off-topic as this is a Q&A site and not a forum. Thoughts or *opinions* are off-topic, and your question does **not** have a specific problem (question) to be solved - please refer https://askubuntu.com/help/dont-ask

andrew.46

5/13/24, 9:26 AM

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Levente

5/13/24, 10:10 AM

I don't code python but had read about it that its installer tends to create an unusually huge dependency hell (conflicting dependency versions) that is painful / hopeless to manage. Separating projects through the usage of virtual environments were portrayed as the best practice to avoid this, and keep dependency management pain free. Basically, this does not impact one when one installs only one project in the global scope. But as soon as you try to have multiple projects in the global scope dependency hell hits. Therefore virtual envs. Or so I remember reading, some 5-6-ish years ago.

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FedKad

5/6/24, 11:00 AM

You can use pipx, Python local installer:

$ sudo apt install pipx

and then, for example:

$ pipx install yt-dlp
$ pipx install speedtest-cli
$ pipx upgrade-all

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