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simonw / files-to-prompt

Concatenate a directory full of files into a single prompt for use with LLMs
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Getting error when trying to install on macOS #20

Open vfonic opened 3 months ago

vfonic commented 3 months ago

I'm trying to install the tool on macOS, but I'm not familiar with Python nor it's package managers.

Here's the errors I'm getting:

> pip install files-to-prompt
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

> brew install files-to-prompt                   
Warning: No available formula with the name "files-to-prompt". Did you mean file-formula?
==> Searching for similarly named formulae and casks...
==> Formulae
file-formula

To install file-formula, run:
  brew install file-formula

==> Casks
firestorm

To install firestorm, run:
  brew install --cask firestorm

What would be the best way forward?

sandipb commented 2 months ago

See if you can install pipx 

brew install pipx

This should output some lines to add to your bashrc so that files installed by pipx work correctly. Logout and log back into the terminal after making those changes so that the changes are applied.

Then install via pipx

pipx install files-to-prompt

If your bashrc changes were done correctly, then running files-to-prompt should work.