alt Hacker NewsHow do people install stuff like this? So many tools these days use `npm install` or `pip install`. I certainly have npm and pip installed but they're sandboxed to specific projects using a tool like devbox, nix-devshell, docker or vagrant (in order of age). And they'll be wildly different versions. To be pedantic `pip` is available globally but it throws the sensible `error: externally-managed-environment`
I'm sure there's a way to give this tool it's own virtualenv or similar. But there are a lot of those things and I haven't done much Python for 20 years. Which tool should I use?
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tbh copy paste the github link and ask an agent for a nix package. you may have to do some prompt engineering but usually done in less than 10 ish mins
uv tool install
Installs into an automatic venv and then softlinks that executable (entry-points.console_scripts) into ~/.local/bin. Succeeds pipx or (IIRC) pipsi.
I tend to use things like pyenv or nvm; they keep python and node versions in environments local to your user, rather than the system.
`pip install x` then installs inside your pyenv and gives you a tool available in your shell