Support bootstrap installations with pip install --user

User story: I am an experienced GNU/Linux developer. I only install non-distro packages with installers I trust, so that I reduce the risk of running malicious code. For example, I use pip install --user and to install non-Debian Python packages from PyPI.

Problem: Thus, I don’t want to run curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com... | python3 to install pipx.

Suggested solution 1:

A PyPI package called pipx-bootstrap that functions as follows:

pip install --user pipx-bootstrap
pipx-bootstrap # installs pipx-app from PyPI into correct location
pip uninstall pipx-bootstrap
pipx upgrade pipx-app # should work

Suggested solution 2:

Instructions on how to use pip to install pipx-app into the correct location, so that pipx upgrade pipx-app works thereafter.

Suggested solution 3:

Upstream packaging 😄

apt install python-pipx # installs system version (you can stop here if you only trust distro for system tools)
pipx install pipx-app # install local user version
pipx upgrade pipx-app # upgrades local user version

[lofidevops]

FYI pipx-app is currently available in Debian testing as “python-pipx” https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/python-pipx 🎉

[cs01]

A new package called pipx-bootstrap has been published to PyPI and installation instructions in pipx have been updated.

https://github.com/cs01/pipx-bootstrap https://pypi.org/project/pipx-bootstrap/