Pip installs to unexpected place

[rbowman]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:10:47 -0400, Jonathan Gossage wrote:

> The version of Python was compiled from source code and installed with
> make altinstall. I attempted to use *pip* to install the *Sphinx*
> package into the virtual environment using the command *pip install
> sphinx* in the virtual environment*.

How did you create the venv? Was it activated? I would use 'python -m pip 
install sphinx' but a bare pip should work.