Note: My Python version/packaging problems from earlier actually got worse after my last post on the subject, I just decided to stop posting updates because it was making me too sad
@mcc Ubuntu has completely given up on python packaging so they hobbled pip and made a few apt packages.
When I went looking for answers everyone was saying: just use virtual environments
@ohmrun I ran into this problem and I found the solution was to use "pipx" which is a special kind of pip that installs the packages in a weird way that works around Ubuntu's pip hobbling, but also it does not require you to set up a venv. It just works like pip.
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