Using pipx for packages as opposed to applications

Thomas Passin list1 at tompassin.net
Mon Jan 13 13:15:49 EST 2025


On 1/12/2025 7:11 AM, Chris Green via Python-list wrote:
> Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote or quoted:
>>> E.g. I want to install and use pksheet but, as it's not available from
>>> the Debian repositories, I'll have to install it from PyPi.
>>
>>    I can't dig up any "pksheet" on PyPI. So, you got to take
>>    my earlier response like a rumor from a random tech meetup in
>>    Palo Alto - sounds interesting, but needs serious verification.
>>
> Ah, oops, a typo.  It's pysheet (I have pk on the brain from it being
> Point Kilometrique, distance markers on canals in France).
> 
> Thanks for your previous response, it told me what I needed to know,
> that pipx isn't really going to do what I want particularly easily.
> 
> 
> If I DIY an environment for pysheet and then develop some python that
> uses it, how do I then make it accessible as a 'normal' program? This
> is just for my own use by the way, on (probably) just a couple of
> Linux systems.

Create a launch script that sets the environmental variables and 
launches the program.



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