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Nope I didn't, but the problem doesn't seem to be the Python version, but instead the fact that now Python is "externally managed" and therefore I cannot install packages using
pip install packagename
as it used to be.I know that this is done for security reasons and that the good practice would be using pipx or conda, but the problem is that howdy istallation still tries to use the "old approach"
Many Python packages are packaged by apt to deal with this. Try
apt search python3-
.Thank you, but the problem is that is howdy installation (that gets automatically executed after I run
sudo apt install howdy
that tries to run "old fashioned" pip commands. So I should either find a way to tweak Howdy install (like building it from source after changing something maybe?) or disable this system security feature temporarily, install howdy and re-enable it immediately afterThis should be - if I'm not mistaken - possible using the pip env var I posted about earlier, like this:
PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1 sudo apt install howdy
Or exporting it for the current shell, before running the installation
export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1
But I personally highly discourage it, because - AFAIK - if it even works it will mess up the deps in your system.