routing around uselessness

Posted by Alexander Power

Received: 2025-01-14 21:07:30
Channel: Tech - Technology discussion

I try to run something in Python on my macbook.

For the third or fourth time, I get the same error path.

"error: externally-managed-environment" when using pip3 - they recommend using "brew install" instead
brew install doesn't have the package. As far as I can tell, brew doesn't have any Python packages
the recommended solution is "use venv". But I don't need or want yet another venv setup on my laptop.
ChatGPT suggests a few other things that simply don't work

The ultimate conclusion: disable homebrew in the shell init script. Too many problems, and no solutions at all AFAICT. If I really need something, I can find the command to enable it in one terminal.