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KevinH · 03-26-2018, 03:25 PM

FWIW, pip already groks a user specific install location at least on Linux and Mac.

pip3 install --user PACKAGENAME

And should happily install it in: $HOME/.local/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages/

or at least it used to. We could easily include pip3 in the embedded binary and users could use it to install a package locally. I believe that this path is even auto-added to the python path for each user but I would have to check it.

That might be easier than a full external python just to add a package that the embedded python is missing.

03-26-2018, 03:25 PM	#385
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,893 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	FWIW, pip already groks a user specific install location at least on Linux and Mac. pip3 install --user PACKAGENAME And should happily install it in: $HOME/.local/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages/ or at least it used to. We could easily include pip3 in the embedded binary and users could use it to install a package locally. I believe that this path is even auto-added to the python path for each user but I would have to check it. That might be easier than a full external python just to add a package that the embedded python is missing. Last edited by KevinH; 03-26-2018 at 09:28 PM.