pip/pip3 confusion and keeping up to date

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2023-11-05, Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't know what you mean by that. But if you install the apt packages
and then create your venv with --system-site-packages then I believe
your venv should be able to see the apt packages and import them.