doronz88 / pymobiledevice3

Pure python3 implementation for working with iDevices (iPhone, etc...).
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Homebrew support? #1130

Closed wojciech-kulik closed 1 month ago

wojciech-kulik commented 1 month ago

Hi!

I'm just testing a few things on macOS Sequoia Beta and it turns out that I can't install this tool via pip anymore.

error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try brew install
    xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.

    If you wish to install a Python library that isn't in Homebrew,
    use a virtual environment:

    python3 -m venv path/to/venv
    source path/to/venv/bin/activate
    python3 -m pip install xyz

    If you wish to install a Python application that isn't in Homebrew,
    it may be easiest to use 'pipx install xyz', which will manage a
    virtual environment for you. You can install pipx with

    brew install pipx

    You may restore the old behavior of pip by passing
    the '--break-system-packages' flag to pip, or by adding
    'break-system-packages = true' to your pip.conf file. The latter
    will permanently disable this error.

    If you disable this error, we STRONGLY recommend that you additionally
    pass the '--user' flag to pip, or set 'user = true' in your pip.conf
    file. Failure to do this can result in a broken Homebrew installation.

    Read more about this behavior here: <https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/>

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.1.2
[notice] To update, run: python3.12 -m pip install --upgrade pip

I'm not really familiar with python, but it seems like this way of installing tools is no longer recommended.

Would you consider supporting distribution via Homebrew?


I just remembered that I already asked about it #854.

What would you recommend then? To use pipx?

doronz88 commented 1 month ago

Yeah, pipx is the best option for CLI utils