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Users who use On most project pages, I usually see just I'm OK to add a very short note on using a venv or |
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PS: The docs for Vorta are in this Github repo: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta.borgbase.com |
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Would it make sense to describe steps to create a venv, install vorta there, and link pipx is not really a pip replacement, and it's not a development tool like pipenv. It is meant for installing Python applications, that's why I've suggested it. Developers who use pip generally know how to use it, and when/how to use venvs. Here I'm concerned about users who are not Python developers, and don't have to know how pip works - they just want to install Vorta. #565 is an example of this - the first install method caused problems, so the user tried the next one. |
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Current documentation for installing Vorta on Linux suggests running
pip3 install vorta, which might cause problem with user's system Python installation (if it even succeeds, but users are used to slappingsudoin front of failing commands :-)).Describe the solution you'd like
The documentation should suggest a safer installation method. I've tested installing with pipx on Ubuntu 20.04, with pipx installed from the repository, and it works well.
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