Python pip breaks and how to recover?

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pacman -Qkk python-pip  $(expac -l '\n' %E -S python-pip | sort -u)
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$ pacman -Qkk python-pip  $(expac -l '\n' %E -S python-pip | sort -u)

python-pip: 350 total files, 0 altered files
python-appdirs: 17 total files, 0 altered files
python-cachecontrol: 53 total files, 0 altered files
python-colorama: 33 total files, 0 altered files
python-contextlib2: 17 total files, 0 altered files
python-distlib: 46 total files, 0 altered files
python-distro: 30 total files, 0 altered files
python-html5lib: 125 total files, 0 altered files
python-packaging: 35 total files, 0 altered files
python-pep517: 46 total files, 0 altered files
python-progress: 30 total files, 0 altered files
python-pyopenssl: 33 total files, 0 altered files
python-requests: 67 total files, 0 altered files
python-resolvelib: 46 total files, 0 altered files
python-retrying: 14 total files, 0 altered files
python-setuptools: 348 total files, 0 altered files
python-six: 17 total files, 0 altered files
python-toml: 38 total files, 0 altered files

BTW, ~/.local/lib/python3.10/ is empty

$ ls -a ~/.local/lib/python3.10/
.  ..
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hm… no idea then…

I hope you learned from your mistake and you don’t use pip to install python packages globally with root permission. Or do you all the time?

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I haven’t used pip install as root but used pip uninstall as root.
I want to uninstall the orphan dependencies.
In this case, I uninstalled all the dependencies by autosub, even it needs root.
What’s unexpected is that it’s too hard to recover now.

I think pacman -Syu doesn’t sync perfectly in this case.

Thanks all the same

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What about running this?

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install gitpython
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It works

$ pip install gitpython
Collecting gitpython
  Using cached GitPython-3.1.27-py3-none-any.whl (181 kB)
Collecting gitdb<5,>=4.0.1
  Using cached gitdb-4.0.9-py3-none-any.whl (63 kB)
Collecting smmap<6,>=3.0.1
  Using cached smmap-5.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (24 kB)
Installing collected packages: smmap, gitdb, gitpython
Successfully installed gitdb-4.0.9 gitpython-3.1.27 smmap-5.0.0
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.3.1; however, version 22.0.4 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/home/abc/test/venv/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
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Great :+1:

Just keep in mind: Use ALWAYS a virtual python environment when using pip. Then nothing can break your system, only the virtual python environment would be broken.

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Yes, but still can’t find the reason for the problem.

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Compare pip at venv and the system?

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$ /usr/bin/pip --version
pip 21.0 from /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)
$ /home/abc/test/venv/bin/pip --version
pip 21.3.1 from /home/abc/test/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)

Maybe it’s easier to wait for the next upgrade

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A big upgrade (2GB+ downloaded) from manjaro today doesn’t help.
The problem has been solved by reinstalling manjaro.