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?
Doesn’t pyenv solve?
Plus one for pyenv
Compile it, install it to your ~/bin.
~/.local/bin
;)But yes, great idea.
I found a script online that installed the tar archive. For some reason that version of python still wasnt used, and invoking it with
python3.12.6
or something didnt do anything
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
I tried to get install instructions for home-manager and they only had them if you are already on nix?
I didnt get it
Home-manager > nix profile
Also, nix-shell is supposed to be used for debugging, and nix shell/run/develop for using packages without installing them
Does home manager work standalone without having nix first? I’ve never installed it on non-nixos
Nix shell is absolutely for running packages without installing them it literally tells you to do that in the terminal hint
Nix run iirc only works with flakes
You might consider trying Miniconda, a version of Anaconda. It installs a local python environment of your choosing at a user level. https://docs.anaconda.com/miniconda/
I Gave it a try on macOS a few days ago because brew and python is a dependencie hell and way to much workarounds to make some scripts to work properly when specific versions of packages are needed…
Miniconda actually made it work fine, without to much hassle. I’m kinda impressed.
Maybe a tooling manager like mise or asdf.
Perhaps overkill for your use case, but uv is pretty great. I suppose you could just use it to install a local python and then add it to your path.
This was going to be my recommendation as well.
You can install the new version of python but leave the system default python as is. You can launch a specific version of python by adding the version number
So python3.12 vs just python3
Can you use pyenv for the script?
You should be able to have multiple versions with an environment manager, maybe customize your shell profile to alias python to the one you want and the other users can alias to the one they want. I’m sure there’s a better way, but I strongly dislike python every time I try to learn it because Perl was the first language I learned, ruining me for strongly opinionated languages.
@boredsquirrel
One solution could be to install uv for a single user, and use that to install and run a Python interpreter.Not familiar with HeliumOS specifically, but for a generic atomic distro I would try layering Python temporarily, and then getting rid of it when you’re done.
Loooool
I thought there was no rpm-ostree but there is.
Well, lets layer some stuff!
I see from the github ticket you need 3.10 .
There’s an EPEL clone, apparently, that bundles a python3.10 package.
MAYBE this is your process:
yum* install dnf-plugins-core yum config-manager --add-repo=https://pkgs.dyn.su/el9/base/x86_64/ yum install python3.10
Then use it like
/usr/bin/python3.10
. Remove it and the repo after.*I avoid using DidNotFinish(dnf) even though I know it’s an alias.