Re: Pip installs to unexpected place

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:43:43 +0200, Friedrich Romstedt wrote:

Many people put emphasis on that you need to *activate* a virtualenv
before using it, but no-one so far stressed the fact that you got Sphinx
installed to ~/jonathan/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages *without
using *--user.

This may depend on the OS. On Ubuntu 24.10  with python 3.12.7 I get

$ pip install black
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.
   If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
    create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
    sure you have python3-full installed.

I do have '/home/rbowman/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages' left over
from earlier versions of Ubuntu.


However on Fedora 42 with 3.13.2

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not
writable.