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rsalmei / alive-progress

A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!
MIT License
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Ubuntu package #265

Closed thekswenson closed 7 months ago

thekswenson commented 8 months ago

I would love to use your progressbar, but it's currently much easier to use something like progressbar2 simply because there is an Ubuntu package to install it system-wide. No need for an env.

rsalmei commented 7 months ago

What do you mean by no need for an "env", a virtual env? AFAIK there isn't any need to install it in a venv, you should be able to install it system-wide.

Also, what does this "Ubuntu package" do differently?

thekswenson commented 7 months ago

Yes, sorry about the laziness, I meant a virtual env. This is the message that I get, whether using sudo or not, when I try to install via pip on my Ubuntu 23.10 system:

=> pip3 install alive-progress
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.

    If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
    create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
    sure you have python3-full installed.

    If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
    it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
    virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.

    See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information.

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.
TheTechRobo commented 7 months ago

You can use --break-system-packages, but that will of course potentially lead to conflicts.

rsalmei commented 7 months ago

No problem, don't worry.

You can use --break-system-packages

Yep, that's what I was going to say. It won't cause any problems, alive-progress is a small package with very few dependencies, totally contained, and impossible to cause any conflicts. Just pip3 install alive-progress --break-system-packages and you should be good.

I'm going to close this, but please let me know whether alive-progress works in any venv after this or not.