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[Thomas Passin]

On 5/19/2024 6:08 PM, Skip Montanaro via Python-list wrote:
> Modern debian (ubuntu) and fedora block users installing using pip.
>>
> 
> Even if you're telling it to install in ~/.local? I could see not allowing
> to run it as root.
> 
> I honestly haven't tried. Maybe I should... 🤔 I have an old laptop running
> XUbuntu 22.04 which I generally only use to compile the most recent
> branches on GitHub (main, 3.12, & 3.13 at the moment).

On some (maybe all) of my Linux VMs, pip - the one installed for the 
system - won't install something even with --user unless you use the 
--break-system-packages flag.