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How to install up-to-date python for a user only? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You know, immutable enterprise systems.

I installed HeliumOS (Almalinux bootc) on a corebooted Chromebook. Works really well, but audio needs to be configured.

The script needs a recent python which is not available there.

Go and rust can be installed for a user only. Is there something similar for python?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

If you can install nix (you can install it per user) then you can have whatever you want in a temporary shell with nix-shell -p python

nix profile install nixpkgs#python if you want it actually installed

Home manager is also entirely user level I believe and lets you use a declarative config too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I tried to get install instructions for home-manager and they only had them if you are already on nix?

I didnt get it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Careful, there's three different terms in the mix here:

NixOS: an entire operating system, you don't need this.

nix: the nix package manager. This is what you'll need to install. look for single user install in the instructions.

home-manager: a module for nix. It's aim is to allow declarative configuration of a users' home configuration (and allow easier per-user install of packages on a global nix install).

If you want to go down the nix route, which I would recommend if you enjoy tinkering and having fine control over your system, you should start with installing nix. With that, you can already setup a shell that has the newest version of python available.

Going beyond that, I can link you some more resources, if you want c:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So "nix install" means placing a nix binary somewhere in my user $PATH?

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