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No apps associated with package ranger, googler

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I don’t understand how pipx determines which CLIs are made available to install. For example, youtube-dl is, but ranger and googler are not. Is this a community-driven thing (if you want a particular package, add it to some index checked by pipx? Is it on the packages themselves i.e. youtube-dl has entry points structured in such a way that it is discoverable by pipx whereas ranger does not?

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clbarnescommented, Nov 18, 2019

I think it’s just that ranger isn’t called ranger on PyPI - there’s another entirely unrelated package called ranger, which coincidentally has no scripts/entry-points. pipx install ranger-fm works for me.

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itsayellowcommented, Nov 19, 2019

So in summary (for anyone viewing this Issue in the future)

pipx can only install python packages. Packages contain a setup.py in their repository
When installing a package, make sure that the name on pypi.org is what you’re looking for
For pipx installation, a package needs an entry_point or scripts in its package specification (most likely in setup.py)

Edited to add “For pipx installation”